Six Steps to a Quick Start

Our Historian trending tools have been designed to handle the most complex environments with the highest level of performance available in the market today, at the same time without a complicated installation process. We have adopted a best practice approach utilizing our years of experience and the feedback from our user community to enable your organization to start logging and viewing trend data faster than any other enterprise Historian on the market today.

Our clients quickly gain a whole new perspective on their operations as the result of being able to quickly and with ease log and view the trend data in an unlimited configuration without the need of involving their IT department. The following six steps can be completed in minutes to demonstrate how easy it really is to start using our Historian.

STEP 1: Define the Dataset

Run the Historian Administrator program. At the top of the window you will six tabs; select the "DataSets" tab then click on the "Create New DataSet" button in the lower left corner. Type in the name of the DataSet and verify the path where the history data will be stored. Click "OK" to create the DataSet.

STEP 2: Identify the Data Source & which OPC Server

Open the Logger Administrator program. From the File Menu and select "New Log Session". In the "Group1" tab, click on the ellipse button after the "OPC Server:" field and select your OPC Server and click "Ok".

STEP 3: Configure the Tags to Log

From the Configure Menu, select "Browse OPC Server...". At the top of the "Add Items" dialog, in the "Name Prefix" field, select the DataSet created in Step 1. Expand the branches under server until the tags can be selected in the right side panel. You may add up to 5 tags with the demo evaluation software, and without limits on an enterprise addition. Hold the "Ctrl" key down to select multiple tags. Click the "Ok" button to add the tags into the group.

STEP 4: Start Logging Data

Click the "Apply" button in the upper right corner. Then click the "Start" button on the toolbar. You should see the current data and times update in the spreadsheet. The status bar should read "Session Logging x of x Trends". View the Error Log from the Help menu if this is incorrect.

Congratulations! You are now successfully logging data.

STEP 5: Add the Tags to a Trend Chart

Run the Canary Trend Link viewer. Right click on the white trending area and select "Add Trends". Expand the tree structure in the left side panel, "Trend Historian" and then "Local". Select the dataset created in Step 1. The tags you added should appear in the right side panel. Click "Ok" to add tags to chart.

STEP 6: View the Current Real-Time Data

Click on the "Live Mode" button in the toolbar, now you are set to start modifying your view to drill into the information you need to make informed decisions.