Activate the Historian License
Advantage Licensing is the software system for activating and managing product licenses. Using the tools in licensing and our Customer Center website, you can view, activate, and manage licenses at your site.
- View current licenses for the products residing on a computer.
- Choose a licensing method (Internet, local intranet, or file-based).
- Change licenses (Activate, Return, Refresh).
- Essentials
- Standard
- Enterprise
Historian HD is sold and licensed separately from Historian. Historian HD provides the Historian user a standard method to move Historian tag configuration and historical archive data from a Windows environment to a Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). HDFS is the primary distribution storage used by Hadoop applications.
A component that is used only by the Historian HD license is installed with your Historian installation: the Historian Archive Ingestion service. This service is reserved for use only with the Historian HD big data analytics platform and is listed as Manual under Startup Type. Stopping this service does not impact the Historian functionality. Unless you are licensed to use Historian HD, do not attempt to start or monitor this service, as it may impact the ability to run the Historian Data Archiver service.
Component | Essentials | Standard | Enterprise | Distributed |
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Server Functionality | ||||
Data modification | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Client Access Licenses (CALs) | 2 | 2500 | 2500 | 2500 |
Cluster support | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Collector redundancy | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Horizontal scalability (data mirroring) | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Data stores | 5 | 10 | 20 | 20 |
Data stores expansion (200) | No | No | Optional | Optional |
Digital / Enumerated / Array Tags | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Distributed Historian | No | No | No | Yes |
Electronic signatures | No | Optional | Optional | Optional |
The Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tools | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Fault-tolerant computer support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Maximum historical tags | 1,000 | 50,000 | 20,000,000 | 20,000,000 |
Microsecond support | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OLE DB provider | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OPC Alarms and Events server | No | Optional | Yes | Yes |
The OPC Classic HDA server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OPC UA HDA server | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Historian server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SCADA buffer (10000 tags, 200 days) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
User-Defined multi-field tags | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Client Functionality | ||||
The Historian Model | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Historian Excel Add-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Historian Administrator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Operations Hub Freemium | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Web Admin console | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Trend Client | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Configuration Hub | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Collector Functionality | ||||
Wonderware Collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Calculation collector | No | Available as a part of the Enterprise Collectors option | Yes | Yes |
Collector Toolkit SDK | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The CygNet collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Expressions | No | No | Yes | Yes |
The File collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The HAB collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The iFIX collector | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The MQTT collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The MQTT Sparkplug B collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The ODBC collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OPC Classic Alarms and Events collector | No | Optional | Yes | Yes |
The OPC DA collector with the cloud option | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OPC Classic HDA collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OPC UA Data Access (DA) collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OSI PI collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The OSI PI distributor | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Python collector | No | Available as a part of the Enterprise Collectors option | Yes | Yes |
The Server-to-Server collector with the cloud option | No | Available as a part of the Enterprise Collectors option | Yes | Yes |
The Simulation collector | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The Windows Performance collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
To activate the Historian license:
- If the license is already activated on your system, access License Client, select .
- If you received an email containing an activation code, you must migrate to Advantage
Licensing. Get the latest licensing software at http://digitalsupport.ge.com.
If you did not receive an activation code, follow the instructions about M4 keys at http://digitalsupport.ge.com.
- Download the Historian software.
- Install the licensing software.
- Activate the Historian license.