Install Remote Management Agent at a Command Prompt

Before you begin

Ensure that all the collectors that you want to manage remotely are in the running state.

About this task

If the collectors that you have installed are earlier than version 9.0, you must install Remote Management Agent on each machine on which the collectors that you want to manage are installed. For collectors version 9.0 or later, Remote Management Agent are automatically installed when you install collectors.

This topic describes how to install Remote Management Agent at a command prompt. You can also install them using the installer.

Procedure

  1. Access the command prompt, and navigate to the RMA folder in the install media.
  2. Run the following command, replacing the values in angular brackets with the appropriate values: 
    HistorianRMA_Install.exe -s RootDrive=<installation drive> DestinationServerName=<Destination Historian server name> UserName1=<Windows username> Password=<Windows password> DataPath="C:\Proficy Historian Data\LogFiles"
    HistorianRMA_Install.exe -s RootDrive=C:\ UserName1=Administrator Password=AdminPassword DestinationServerName=VMHISTWEBAUTO DataPath="C:\Proficy Historian Data\LogFiles"

Results

  • Remote Collector Management is installed on your machine.
  • A folder named Historian Remote Management Agents is created in the GE Digital folder in the installation location that you specified.
  • Remote Collector Management is running, and a .shw file is created in the log folder. This file contains the details of the collectors that are running on the machine.
  • For each collector that you manage using Remote Collector Management, a new entry named ServiceName is created in the collector registry. If the ServiceName key is not created or updated incorrectly, refer to Troubleshooting Remote Collector Management Issues.