HistorianHistorian Licenses
Historian Product License Management
Advantage Licensing is the software system for activating and managing product licenses. Using the tools in licensing and our Customer Center website, you can view, activate, and manage licenses at your site.
- View current licenses for the products residing on a computer.
- Choose a licensing method (Internet, local intranet, or file-based).
- Change licenses (Activate, Return, Refresh).
- Remove the existing license.
- Using the license client, select Advanced, and then select Clear license information on this computer.
- Activate the new license.
If you did not receive an activation code, follow the instructions about M4 keys at http://digitalsupport.ge.com.
- If you are using Windows Server 2012 R2, you must install the update described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2919355.
Follow the instructions in KB2919442 and then KB2919355 before proceeding to KB2999226. This update must be installed before you install the License Client.
- If you are using Windows 8.1, follow the instructions in KB2999226.
Historian License Editions
Historian is available in three license types: Essentials, Standard, and Enterprise. The Essentials edition is included as the on-board Historian with the purchase of some iFIX and CIMPLICITY licenses, and cannot be licensed or sold outside of those packages. Essentials edition customers who require options available in the Standard or Enterprise editions or require more than a 1000 tags must purchase either a Standard or Enterprise License with the appropriate tag count.
You can install all components using the single install media, but the use of specific components and functionality are controlled by the GE license you purchase and install.
The following table provides information on the availability of each Historian component for each license type. Optional indicates that the component is not available by default, but can be purchased separately.
| Component | Essentials | Standard | Enterprise | Distributed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Server Functionality | ||||
| Data modification | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Client Access Licenses (CALs) | 2 | 2500 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Cluster support | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collector redundancy | Optional | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Horizontal scalability (data mirroring) | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Data stores | 5 | 10 | 20 | 20 |
| Data stores expansion (200) | No | No | Optional | Optional |
| Digital / Enumerated / Array Tags | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Distributed Historian | No | No | No | Yes |
| Electronic signatures | No | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| The Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) tools | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Fault-tolerant computer support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Maximum historical tags | 1,000 | 50,000 | 20,000,000 | 20,000,000 |
| Microsecond support | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OLE DB provider | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OPC Alarms and Events server | No | Optional | Yes | Yes |
| The OPC Classic HDA server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OPC UA HDA server | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Historian server | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Collector Management | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| SCADA buffer (10000 tags, 200 days) | Yes* | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| User-Defined multi-field tags | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Client Functionality | ||||
| The Historian Excel add-in | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Historian Administrator | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Operations Hub Freemium | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Web Admin console | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Trend Client | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Collector Functionality | ||||
| Aveva (Wonderware) Collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Calculation collector | No | Available as a part of the Enterprise Collectors option | Yes | Yes |
| Collector Toolkit SDK | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Cygnet collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Expressions | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| The File collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The iFIX collector | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The MQTT collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The ODBC collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OPC Classic Alarms and Events collector | No | Optional | Yes | Yes |
| The OPC DA collector with the cloud option | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OPC Classic HDA collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OPC UA Data Access (DA) collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OSI PI collector with the cloud option | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The OSI PI distributor | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Server-to-Server collector with the cloud option | No | Available as a part of the Enterprise Collectors option | Yes | Yes |
| The Simulation collector | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| The Windows Performance collector | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
A component that is used only by the Historian HD license is installed with your Historian installation: the Historian Archive Ingestion service. This service is reserved for use only with the Historian HD big data analytics platform and is listed as Manual under Startup Type. Stopping this service does not impact the Historian functionality. Unless you are licensed to use Historian HD, do not attempt to start or monitor this service, as it may impact the ability to run the Historian Data Archiver service.
