About Installing Collectors

Collectors are used to collect data from various data sources and send the data to the Historian server.

You can install collectors on-premises or on an EC2 instance in a VPC (which can be the same one as the Historian server or a different one). However, you cannot install the on-premises and cloud versions of collectors on the same machine. You can choose a different machine or uninstall the existing version of collectors.

You can install collectors using the installer or at a command prompt. If you have already installed collectors in a previous version of Proficy Historian for AWS, you can upgrade them by installing them again.