Historian Trend Client Application

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About Historian Trend Client

This online help system describes how to configure and use the Historian Trend Client application that is included with your Historian product. This client is designed to offer a simple and intuitive interface into your process and equipment data, allowing you to quickly troubleshoot and make improvements, leading to time and cost savings through the use of trend charts and current value tables.

The following sections provide information about this client:

  • Getting Started: Provides an introduction about the capabilities of the user interface and describes system requirements.
  • User Interface: Defines the elements of the user interface.
  • How Do I...: Provides instructions for using the interface screens to accomplish tasks.

Getting Started

The Historian Trend Client application is designed to consume and visualize the time series data available within Historian. Historian is a data hub that allows data to be captured from many process areas and assets within your enterprise. Making sense out of this data can help you reduce operational cost and risk, put process improvement actions into place, and improve your bottom line.

To help you achieve these business outcomes, Historian provides this intuitive and easy to use visualization tool that works as a pure web browser application.

The following sections provide information on how to get started with this application:

Logging In and Logging Out

Logging In

Log in to the application with the user name and password supplied by your system administrator.
  1. In a web browser, enter your specific product URL to launch the web client. For example, enter:
    https://<WebServerName>/:8443/uaa/login#/home

    where <WebServerName> is the computer name of your Historian Trend Client web server.

  2. In the Login entry fields, enter your user name and password, and then click the Login button or press Enter.
    The system authenticates the user name and password combination. The main interface screen appears and allows you to select your next action.

Logging Out

  1. Click the Admin icon (or your username) in the upper right corner of the main interface.
    A drop-down menu appears.
  2. From the drop-down menu, select Logout.
    The system logs you out of the Historian Trend Client application.