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OPC UA error code

BadSecurityChecksFailed (0x80130000) — An error occurred verifying security

The security layer rejected the peer. The code is deliberately vague — it covers certificate, signature, and policy problems without telling an attacker which one failed.

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Diagnosis

When you hit this


Resolution

How to fix it

  1. Move the certificate into the trusted store
    Connect once so the server files your certificate as rejected, then move it to trusted on the server and reconnect.
  2. Make the URIs match
    The certificate's SubjectAltName URI and the client's ApplicationUri must be identical strings. A trailing slash difference is enough to fail.
  3. Check the clock
    Both ends need roughly correct time. A PLC that lost its RTC battery will reject every certificate as not-yet-valid.

Normalization

What Forge does about it

This is a configuration or addressing mistake on the wire, upstream of anything Forge sees. Where Forge helps is the step after you fix it: once the point returns data, its vendor tag name maps to a canonical field automatically, so you do not also have to hand-maintain a name table for every point you just re-addressed.


Connect

Normalize OPC UA telemetry

One MCP endpoint serves every protocol adapter. 16,908 curated mappings, 366 canonical fields.

# normalize telemetry from OPC UA — and 13 other protocols
claude mcp add --transport http forge https://mcp.foundrynet.io/mcp \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_FORGE_KEY'
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Related

Keep reading

Other OPC UA codes: BadNodeIdUnknown BadConnectionClosed BadTimeout BadUserAccessDenied BadSubscriptionIdInvalid

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