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.