Profilesare grouped into categories to help vendors and end users understand the applicability of a Profile. A Profilecan be assigned to more than one category.
Table 1 – Profile Categoriescontains the list of currently defined ProfileCategories.
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Profilesof this category specify functions of an OPC UA Client. |
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Global Directory Service |
Profilesof this category specify functions for global discovery and certificate management. |
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Security |
Profilesof this category specify security related functions. Security policies are part of this category. The URI of security policies has to be part of an Endpoint Description returned from the GetEndpoints service. Profilesof this category apply to Clientsand Servers. |
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Profilesof this category specify functions of an OPC UA Server. The URI of such Profilescan be exposed in the Servercapabilities. |
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Transport |
Profilesof this category specify specific protocol mappings. The URI of such Profileshas to be part of an Endpoint Description. These Profilesapply to Clientsand Servers. |