Create a Simulation Collector

Before you begin

  1. Deploy Proficy Historian for Azure Cloud.
  2. Install collectors. You can install them on-premises or on a VNet (which can be different from the one on which Proficy Historian for Azure Cloud is deployed).

About this task

The Simulation collector generates random numbers and string patterns for demonstration purposes. You can configure the number of tags that you want to generate.
Features:
  • The collector generates random scaled values between 0 and 32,767. It uses the high and low engineering units fields of each tag to scale the 0 to 32,767 pre-set values into appropriate engineering units.
  • The collector also provides five-string simulation tags that generate random alphanumeric data.
  • In addition to generating random values, the collector can generate sequential values for some tags. For a list of such tags, refer to Tags with Sequential Values.
  • You can import browse for tags and their attributes.
  • The supported timestamp resolution is 1ms.
  • Floating point, integer, and string data are supported. Binary data is not supported.
  • You can create Python Expression tags.
  • Only polled data collection is supported with a minimum poll interval of 100ms.
Note: You can create more simulation string tags by manually adding string tags with the following naming convention to the collector: CollectorName.Simulation.StringXXXX
Supported Tag Attributes:
  • Tagname
  • Data Type
  • Hi Engineering Units
  • Lo Engineering Units
  • Hi Scale
  • Lo Scale

Procedure

  1. Run Command Prompt as an administrator.
  2. Run the AzureCloudHistorianConfigurationUtility.exe file. It is provided along with the collectors installer. After you install collectors, it will be available in the C:\Program Files\GE Digital\Historian Cloud Config folder by default.
  3. Enter the number corresponding to creating a collector instance.
  4. Enter the following details:
    Field Description
    Interface Name Enter the name that you want to provide for the collector instance.
    Azure Load Balancer IP

    Enter the Azure Load Balancer IP. A value is required.

    Tip: To find the Azure Load Balancer IP:
    1. Go to the Azure portal.
    2. Go to the Resource Group that was specified during deployment.
    3. Select the cluster_name-IP to access the resource of type Public IP Address.
    4. Select or copy the IP Address.
    Username Enter the username to connect to Proficy Historian for Azure Cloud. A value is required.
    Password Enter the password to connect to Proficy Historian for Azure Cloud. A value is required.
    Tip: For the default user, ihCloudHistAdmin, this is the value you entered in the Password field at the time of deployment.
    The collector instance is created and started.