About Managing Collectors Using Configuration Hub
Collectors are used to collect data from various sources and send it to Historian. For a list of collectors and their usage, refer to About Historian Data Collectors.
After you install collectors and Remote Management Agent, the following artefacts will be available:
- Executable files: These files are required to add a collector instance.
- Instances of the following collectors:
- The iFIX collector
- The iFIX Alarms & Events collector
- The OPC Classic Data Access collector for CIMPLICITY
- The OPC Classic Alarms and Events collector for CIMPLICITY
- The Remote Collector Management agent: Provides the ability to manage collectors remotely.
You can then add a collector instance. This section describes how to add a collector instance using Configuration Hub. You can also add a
collector instance using the RemoteCollectorConfigurator utility, which does
not require you to install Web-based Clients.
Note: Using Configuration Hub, you cannot add comments, enable the debug mode, pause
data collection, resume data collection, modify, or delete an instance of offline
collectors. In addition, you cannot compress network messages. You can, however,
add or delete the collector instance
using the Collector Manager utility at a command prompt.