Configure a Proficy Historian Server for the Analysis Application

About this task

This topic describes how to configure Proficy Historian servers for the Analysis application so that you can plot Historian tags. The Analysis application supports plotting of Historian tags from Proficy Historian versions 8.1 SIM x, SIM2, SIM3, and 9.1.
Note: The Analysis application does not support plotting of Historian tags from Proficy Historian version 9.0.
You can configure a maximum of 10 remote or native GE Proficy Historian Servers in the application.properties file for the Analysis application.

To configure one or more GE Proficy Historian Servers for the Analysis application, follow these steps:

Procedure

  1. In the directory <tomcat_home>/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 9.0/webapps/mes-dataservice-impl-<version>/WEB-INF/classes, access the application.properties file by using a text editor. Where:
    • <tomcat_home>: Is the directory where you installed Apache Tomcat. For example, C:/Program Files.
    • <version>: Is the version of the mes-dataservice-impl microservice created during the installation of the Plant Applications Web Client. For example, 0.6.7.
  2. Enter the properties and their details for each GE Proficy Historian Server as described in the following table.
    PropertyDescription
    hist<n>.service.originEnter the IP address of the GE Proficy Historian Server. For example, 10.181.213.204.
    hist<n>.service.portEnter the port number on which the GE Proficy Historian Server is installed.
    Tip: You can leave this property blank if the GE Proficy Historian Server is installed on the default port 8443.
    hist<n>.service.hostnameEnter the host name of the GE Proficy Historian Server as configured in the Plant Applications Administrator. For example, GESERVER.
    hist<n>.service.client_idEnter the client id of the Historian Administrator.
    • Historian 7.0: admin is the default.
    • Historian 8.0 or later: <hostname.admin> where the host name is the name of the server where the Historian web tools are installed.
    hist<n>.service.client_secretEnter the client secret of the Historian Administrator.
    hist<n>.uaa.originEnter the host (NetBIOS) name of the Historian UAA server.
    Note: The fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) is not supported.
    hist<n>.uaa.portEnter the port number on which the Historian UAA server is installed.
    Note: In the Property column, in each entered property, <n> represents a numeric value between 1 and 10 indicating the count of the Historian Server configured in the file. For example, hist1.service.origin, hist2.service.origin, and so on.
  3. Save changes to the application.properties file.
  4. Restart mes-dataservice-impl-0.6.7 and processanalyzer-service-impl-0.6.7 to apply the changes.

Results

The configured GE Proficy Historian Servers appear in the Analysis application.