Choosing a Collector

The following table provides a list of collectors supported by Proficy Historian for Azure Cloud, along with their purpose and features.

Collector Type	Purpose	Supported Data Collection	Time Resolution	Supported Data Types
The Calculation collector	Performs calculations on values stored in Data Archiver.	Both polled and unsolicited	Seconds	Floating point, integer, binary, and string
The iFIX collector	Collects data from iFIX.	Only polled	Milliseconds or seconds	Boolean, floating point, integer, and string
The MQTT collector	Collects data published to a topic using an MQTT broker. The data should be in Predix time series data format.	Only unsolicited	Seconds, milliseconds, and microsecond	Boolean, floating point, integer, and string
The ODBC collector	Collects data from an ODBC data source.	Only unsolicited	1 millisecond	Floating point, integer, and string
The OPC Classic DA collector	Collects data from any OPC 1.0 or OPC 2.0-compliant OPC Classic DA server.	Both polled and unsolicited (unsolicited for OPC 2.0 only)	1 millisecond	Floating point, integer, binary, and string
The OPC Classic HDA collector	Collects historical data from any OPC HDA 1.2 - compliant OPC server.	Only unsolicited	1 millisecond	Floating point, integer, binary, and string
The OPC UA DA collector	Collects data from any OPC UA 1.0 or OPC 2.0-compliant OPC UA DA server.	Both polled and unsolicited	1 millisecond	Floating point, integer, binary, and string
The OSI PI collector	Collects data from an OSI PI data server.	Only unsolicited	Milliseconds and seconds	Floating point, integer, and string
The OSI PI Distributor	Collects data from a Historian server and sends it to an OSI PI server.	Only unsolicited	Milliseconds and seconds	Floating point, integer, and string
The Server-to-Server collector	Collects data from an on-premises Historian server and sends it to Proficy Historian for Azure Cloud, or vice versa.	Only unsolicited	100 milliseconds	Floating point, integer, and string
The Server-to-Server Distributor	Collects data from a smaller Historian server to a large, centralized Historian server.	Only unsolicited	100 milliseconds	Floating point, integer, and string
The Simulation collector	Generates random numbers and string patterns for demonstration/testing purposes. You can configure the number of tags that you want to generate.	Only polled	1 millisecond	Floating point, integer, and string
The Wonderware collector	Collects data from Wonderware.	Only unsolicited	1 millisecond	Floating point, integer, and string