OSI PI Collector Installation

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The OSI PI Collector is automatically added to Historian when you install it, but is not configured for auto discovery of local OSI PI Data Archivers. Optionally, you can perform an install via the command line. For more information on this install, refer to Data Collectors- General >Installing a Collector via the Command Line.

To start collecting data from your OSI PI Data Archiver, you must first configure the OSI PI Collector to connect to your OSI PI server. Refer to Configuring the OSI PI Collector for more information.

If you want to collect more than one OSI PI Data Archive to Historian, you must install multiple OSI PI Collectors- one per OSI PI data archive.
Note: The collector collects data from the OSI PI archives and the Historian archives with entries that match the OSI PI archive entries verbatim (if Historian compression is disabled).

(OPTIONAL) To configure multiple OSI PI Collectors on the same machine:

CAUTION:
The following procedure is for advanced Windows users. If you are not familiar with Windows Registry editing, contact your Network Administrator for assistance.
  1. Run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
  2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intellution, Inc.\iHistorian\Services\PICollector.
    In the case of a 64-bit system this may be found at HKEY_LOCAL_ MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Intellution, Inc.\iHistorian\Services\PICollector..
  3. Create a new key and give it a unique name. For example, AlbPI01.
  4. Edit the new registry key and add a string value named InterfaceName.
  5. In the InterfaceName value, enter a name for the OSI PI Server's interface.
    The string "PI" is reserved, and should not be used.
  6. Add a second string value to the new key named HistorianNodeName.
  7. In the HistorianNodeName value, enter the name of the Historian Archive server to which the new collector will be sending data.
  8. Close the Registry Editor.
  9. Open a command window.
  10. Start the OSI PI Collector from a command line prompt and command it to use the new registry key, with the -multiple and REG= parameters.
    For example, if you named the registry key AlbPI01, you would use the following command: 
    iHPICollector.exe- multiple REG=AlbPI01
  11. Configure the OSI PI Collector. For more information, refer to Configuring the OSI PI Collector