Article - CS316645
Remote Properties Bound to KEPServerEX/ThingWorx Kepware Server Tags with Start Type: Read Edge Value do not get an initial value after a restart of ThingWorx Platform
Modified: 02-Oct-2025
Applies To
- ThingWorx Kepware Server (legacy) 8.2 to 6.14
- ThingWorx Platform 8.2 to 10.0
- Kepware Server (formerly KEPServerEX) 6.2.460.0 to 6.14
- ThingWorx Edge SDK 2.2.0 to 7.0.1
Description
- Remote Properties bound to KEPServerEX / ThingWorx Kepware ServerTags do not update after ThingWorx Platform restart
- After restarting ThingWorx, Kepware Tags do not show a Value until the next update is made to the Tag
- Remote Properties in ThingWorx show a Quality of Unknown and a Value of 0 after a restart with Start Type set to Read Edge Value
- Properties on an IndustrialThing show Unknown Quality, Value 0 after ThingWorx Platform restart
- Data retrieval from KEPServerEX shows incorrect data for some Tags and quality is marked as Unknown
- Tags that do not see frequent updates stay at Unknown Quality and a Value 0 following a restart of ThingWorx Platform instead of fetching the value as set by Start Type: Read Edge Value
- Remotely Bound Properties that have the following settings do not fetch initial values from KEPServerEX / ThingWorx Kepware Server following a restart of ThingWorx Platform
- Cache Method: Read from server cache or Cache for specific time with a Cache Interval of 0
- Push Type: Always Pushed or Pushed based on value change
- Start Type: Read Edge Value
- Quality: unknown on properties of Remote Thing bound to Industrial Connectivity via KEPServerEX / ThingWorx Kepware Server
- Property driven by KEPServerEX / ThingWorx Kepware Server bindings / tags does not get its value updated in ThingWorx Platform
- Some slowly changed tags will not get updated in the remotely bound Properties after a Tomcat restart
- Error in ThingWorx / KEPServer logs (may vary depending on the KEPServer version):
Unable to Invoke Service GetPropertySubscriptions on <IndustrialThing> : Thing [<IndustrialThing>] is not running
[ERROR] YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss,xxx subscribedPropertyUpdateTask - Error getting subscribed properties on Thing <IndustrialThing>
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