Getting Started
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Web Admin Console Overview
This documentation describes how to configure and use the Historian Web Admin Console that is included with your Historian product. The Historian Web Admin Console includes a diagnostic dashboard and a configuration manager.
Use the Historian Web Admin Console to:
- Monitor and troubleshoot the system performance.
- Maintain and configure the Historian System.
- Retrieve and analyze archived information.
- Set up and maintain configuration and other parameters for tags, collectors, and archives.
- Perform specific supervisory and security tasks for the Historian system.
Differences Between the Web Admin and Historian Administrator
The Historian Web Admin Console provides a web-based user interface to Historian that permits you to monitor, supervise, archive, retrieve, and control data gather functions from the server, a client, or one or more remote web-based nodes.
There are some differences between the Historian Web Admin Console and the Windows-based Historian Administrator.
Note: All actions are common regardless of interface used, and any configuration done in one Administrator shows up in the other when the functionality is shared.
| Available Only in the Web Admin Console | Available only in the Windows Historian Administrator |
|---|---|
| Diagnostic Dashboard | Single Interface to many servers |
| Ability to Add/Configure Mirror | Calculation Tab under Tags, with the ability to create a calculated tag |
| - | Tag Security Administration, with the ability to assign read/write/administer groups to a tag or set of tags |
| - | Ability to define enumerated sets |
| - | Ability to define user-defined types |
| - | Ability to configure your HDA server |
Actions You Can Perform Using the Historian Web Admin Console
- Examine key operating statistics for archives and collectors, and displays them in an interactive user interface.
- Mirror stored data on multiple nodes to provide high levels of data reliability and redundancy. With Data Mirror, you can have continuous data read and write functionality. Data Mirroring gives you:
- High availability of Historian Server as any of the mirrored nodes can answer read requests.
- Data Redundancy because data is stored in multiple locations.
- Perform archive maintenance, including:
- Set archive size.
- Select options and parameters.
- Display security parameters.
- Add and restore archives.
- Perform 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.
Logging in to the Web Admin Console
Get a valid user name and password from your Administrator.
Logging Out of the Admin Web Console
- Click the Admin icon
in the upper right corner of the main interface.A drop-down menu appears.