Using the Web Admin to Add a New Tag Manually
About this task
The dynamic collector update feature ensures that any modifications done to the tag configuration do not affect all the tags in a collector. Only the tags that stop data collection will record zero data and bad quality without restarting the collector. In other words, the tags that do not stop data collection do not record bad data samples to the collection.
- OPC Collector
- iFIX Collector
- Calculation Collector
- Simulation Collector
- Server to Server Collector
- PI Collector
- PI Distributor
For a tag to stop and restart the collection without restarting the collector, you must enable the On-line Tag Configuration Changes option on the Advanced tab of the Collector Maintenance screen. By default, the On-line Tag Configuration Changes option is enabled.
If you disable the On-line Tag Configuration Changes option, any changes you make to the tags do not affect collection until after you restart the collector. To restart the collector, you must stop and start the collector service or executable. Restarting the collector stops and restarts the tag(s) collection and records bad data samples to the collection.
All the collector configuration changes done within a 30 second time frame are batched up to let you update/modify a small set of tags at a time to collect the modified data faster.
Follow these steps to add a new tag manually from the Web Administrator: