HistorianGetting Started
Overview of the Historian Web Admin Console
The Historian Web Admin console is a web-based user interface, which you can use to monitor, supervise, archive, retrieve, and control data gather functions from the Historian server, a client, or one or more remote web-based nodes. It contains a diagnostic dashboard and Configuration Manager.
Using the Web Admin console, you can:
- Monitor and troubleshoot the system performance.
- Maintain and configure the Historian System.
- Retrieve and analyze archived information.
- Set up and maintain configuration and other parameters for tags, collectors, and archives.
- Perform specific supervisory and security tasks for the Historian system.
Difference Between the Web Admin Console and Historian Administrator
The following features are available in the Web Admin consoleand not in Historian Administrator:
- Diagnostic Manager
- Ability to add or configure mirror nodes
The following features are available in Historian Administrator and not in the Web Admin console:
- A single interface to access all the servers.
- Ability to create a calculated tag.
- Ability to assign read/write/admin groups to a tag or a set of tags.
- Ability to define enumerated sets.
- Ability to define user-defined types.
- Ability to configure an OPC HDA server.
Note: Regardless of whether you perform a task using the Web Admin console or Historian Administrator, the changes are reflected in both the applications.
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.
