Overview of the iFIX Data Collectors

The iFIX collectors collect data from iFIX and store it in the Historian server. They include:
  • The iFIX collector
  • The iFIX Alarms and Events collector
They use the Easy Data Access (EDA) protocol to retrieve data from a running iFIX system.

When you install collectors, if iFIX is installed on the same machine as the collectors, instances of the iFIX collectors are created automatically. You can begin using these collectors, or create more instances as needed using Configuration Hub.

Features:
  • You can browse the source for tags and their attributes.
  • Only the polled data collection is supported; unsolicited collection is not supported. The minimum poll interval is 100ms.
  • The supported timestamp resolution is milliseconds or seconds.
  • The collector accepts device timestamps.
  • Floating point, integer, string, and binary data are supported.
  • You can create Python Expression Tags for those collectors that support them.
Supported tag attributes:
  • Tagname
  • Source Address
  • Engineering Unit Description
  • Data Type
  • Hi Engineering Units
  • Lo Engineering Units
  • Is Array Tag