Supported Acquisition Interfaces

This section provides a list of specific Data Collectors and the associated Data Acquisition Interfaces (protocols or ways in which data is input).
Data CollectorData Acquisition Interface
iFIX Data CollectorEDA data acquisition interface
Machine Edition View Data CollectorPoint Management API Interface
OPC Data CollectorOPC data acquisition interface
OPC Classic Alarms and Events collectorThe OPC Alarms and Events server
File Data CollectorCSV or XML file import
Simulation Data CollectorRandom pattern of data
Calculation collectorCalculations performed on data already in the server
Server-to-Server CollectorData and messages collected from one Historian Server (source) to another Historian Server (destination)
OPC UA Data Access (DA) collectorOPC Data Acquisition interface for Microsoft Windows
Wonderware Data CollectorSQL Server ODBC Driver Interface
Cygnet collectorSQL Server ODBC Driver Interface
ODBC collectorSQL Server ODBC Driver Interface