About CIMPLICITY Integration with Historian

Historian enables you to archive data for historical retrieval.

CIMPLICITY provides a straightforward OPC interface that enables you to easily connect to Historian to archive CIMPLICITY point data.

Pre-requisites

Ensure that you have installed the following components:


Component	Help Link
Historian Server Warning: In Historian 9.0, when prompted for the UAA location during this install, be sure to select the URL where you have installed or where you will install Historian Web-clients.	https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/historian/version90/t_hgs_installing_single_server_historian.html
Historian Collectors	https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/historian/version90/c_about_installing_collectors.html
Historian Client Tools	https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/historian/version90/t_hgs_installing_historian_client_tools.html
Historian Web-clients Warning: Generally, to work with Historian 9.0, Historian Web-clients must be installed in order to set up data and alarm collection from a CIMPLCIITY node unless upgrading from using previous versions of Historian with your CIMPLICITY project(s).	https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/historian/version90/c_about_installing_web_based_clients.html

Historian Server must be fully configured, either on a CIMPLICITY Server or on a remote server. The Historian Database and Historian Alarm/Event Database must be configured and functional.

Note: Starting Historian 9.0, you will need to add OPC and OPC A & E collector instances using Configuration Hub. Refer https://www.ge.com/digital/documentation/historian/version90/t_add_collector_instance.html

Note:

Historian provides detailed documentation to configure and use Historian. This documentation describes CIMPLICITY integration with Historian.
Historian 3.1x and lower are not supported on Vista or Windows Server 2008.


Step Number	Description
Step 1	Select Alarm and Event Archiver during Historian installation.
Step 2	Enable the Historian OPC Interface.
Step 3	Select points to be logged to Historian.
Step 4	Open the Historian Administrator System Statistics window.
Step 5	Review CIMPLICITY point (tag) details in Historian.
Step 6	Display CIMPLICITY alarm data in Historian.
Step 7	Set up Historian connections to collect data.