Overview of the Wonderware Collector

The Wonderware Collector gathers data samples from a Wonderware Historian 2014 R2 Server application and stores the corresponding data entries in the Historian Server.

This collector supports collecting of analog, digital and string types of data from the Wonderware Historian Server. This collector supports a distributed model, where the Wonderware Historian Server, the Historian Data Collector, and GE Historian software are installed on different machines. Typically, however, the collector is installed on the same computer as the Wonderware Data Archiver and sends data to a remote GE Historian server.

The Wonderware Collector uses unsolicited collection, whereby changes to the Wonderware tags are detected, and are forwarded to the Historian server. Raw samples from the Wonderware Collector are duplicated into the GE Historian data archive.

One Wonderware Collector can collect data from a single Wonderware Historian server. To collect from multiple Wonderware Historian servers to an Historian archiver, you must install multiple collectors.

Limitations: If you want a domain user to use the Wonderware Collector, after you add an instance of a collector, when you later configure it, do not provide values in the User Name and Password fields. This is because ODBC Driver uses Windows authentication.