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Using the Non-Web Admin to Browse your Data Source for New Tags
Before you begin
To browse for new tags, your collector must be running. If it is not running, start the collector.
Procedure
Open the Historian Non-Web Administrator.
Select the Collectors link from the toolbar.
The Collector Maintenance screen appears.
If you have multiple collectors listed, select a collector from the Collectors list.
To browse for new tags from your data source, click Add Tags at the bottom of the screen.
The Add Multiple Tags From Collector dialog box appears.
In the Show Only field, select either All Source Tags or Source Tags Not Collected.
If you select the second option, the browse returns only the tags that are not currently included for collection.
If a Historian tagname is different from its source address tagname, the source tag is displayed in the returned list even if you browse the collector using the Show Source Tags Not Collected criterion. Collection on the same source address using a unique tagname is allowed.
A check mark beside a tag indicates that the tag is currently being collected. Absence of a mark indicates that the tag is not currently being collected.
In the Source Tagname and Description fields, you can optionally enter masks for the browse, using standard Windows wildcard characters.
Click Browse to initiate the search or Reset to start over.
The browse returns a list of tags, as shown in the following figure. In the Historian Non-Web Administrator, a tag that is currently collected appears in black type. A tag that is not currently collected appears in blue type.
