The ever popular free OPC tool, the MatrikonOPC Explorer now has support of the OPC Alarms and Events specification.  Being able to test connections to OPC A&E servers from the familiar OPC Explorer tool has been something that people have been wanting for some time now, and it’s finally here.  You can download the MatrikonOPC A&E Explorer here.

There is support for all the expected OPC A&E client functionality:  Simple, Conditional and Tracking filtering, Severity and Category filtering as well as update throttling.  This is all in addition to all the other features that OPC Explorer already offers such as interface checking, support for OPC Security, launching server configurations, and all the other good stuff.

Now all those people out there using the MatrikonOPC Alarms and Events Server for Real Time Data, can monitor the generated OPC A&E Events, and the underlying OPC DA Server with the same tool J