Migrating Historical Alarm and Event Data

About this task

To make the backed up alarms available for retrieval, you have to write them into the current alarm database.

To migrate Historical Alarms and Events to the latest version of Proficy Historian:

Procedure

  1. Click the Migrate Alarms and Events Backup tab.
  2. In Backup File Path field, provide the location of the file containing the backup. If your server is running on a remote computer, enter a path that exists on the remote computer.
  3. In the Database section, in the SQL Server Instance Name field, enter the server name. In the Database Name field, enter the name of the database to which you have to migrate the data. Click the Test Connection button to check that the database is active and the information is accurate.
    Note: You can find this information in the registry under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Intellution, Inc.\iHistorian\Services\AlarmArchiver.
  4. Select either windows or SQL server authentication by selecting Use Windows Authentication or Use SQL Authentication options.
  5. In the User Id and Password fields, enter the login credentials. Be sure to enter an account with permission to restore alarms.
  6. Click the Test Connection button to check that the database is active and the information is accurate.
    The Begin Migration is activated and the alarm data is restored.
  7. Click the Begin Migration button to migrate the data.