Introduction to the Historian Administrator

The Historian Administrator is a user interface that permits you to monitor, supervise, archive, retrieve, and control data gathering functions from the server, a client, or one or more remote non-web-based nodes. This manual provides descriptive material and specific operating procedures for performing all common tasks.

This guide is intended for people who need to:

• Retrieve and analyze archived information.
• Monitor Historian system performance.
• Set up and maintain configuration and other parameters for tags, collectors, and archives.
• Perform specific supervisory and security tasks for the Historian system.
• Maintain and troubleshoot the Historian system.

The Historian Administrator allows you to:

• Examine key operating statistics for archives and collectors, and display or search system alerts and messages.
• Perform archive maintenance, including:
  • Set archive size.
  • Select options and parameters.
  • Display security parameters.
  • Add and restore archives.
  • Routine backup and restoration tasks
• Perform tag maintenance, including:
  • Add, delete, and copy tags.
  • Search for tags in a data source or in the Historian Database.
  • Start and stop collection on a tag.
  • Configure, display, and edit tag parameters and options.
  • Display trend data for selected tags.
• Perform data collector maintenance, including:
  • Add or delete collectors.
  • Configure, display, and edit parameters for all types of collectors.
  • Create calculation formulas.
  • Display performance trends for selected collectors.