Getting Started in Six Easy Steps

The Canary Enterprise Historian and Trend Link are easy to setup, configure and manage.  Follow the 6 steps below and you will be logging and viewing data within minutes. On-line helps are available for any field by pressing the F1 key.

 

Step 1:  Define the Dataset

Run the Historian Administrator program.  At the top of the window you will see seven 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 select "New Log Session".  In the "Group1" tab, click on the ellipse button after the "OPC Server:" field and select your OPC Server.

 

 

Step 3:  Configure the Tags to log

From the Edit 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 the server until the tags can be selected in the right side panel.  You may add up to 5 tags from your server or unlimited tags from the Simulated Data Server with the evaluation software. Hold the "Ctrl" or "Shift" key down to select multiple tags.

 

Step 4:  Start Logging Data

Click the "Apply" button on the tool bar.  Then  click the "Start" button.  You should see the current data and times update in the spreadsheet. The status bar should read "Session  x trends" in green.  View the Error Log from the Help menu if this is incorrect.

You are now logging data to the Canary Enterprise Historian!
Use Trend Link to view the historical 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, "OPC UA Servers", "LocalHost"and  Canary.EnterpriseHistorian@<machine name> (None None). Click "Yes" to accept the server certificate and then expand Objects.  Select the dataset created in Step 1.  The tags you added should appear in the right side panel.  Add tags to chart.

 

Step 6:  View the current real-time data

Click on the "Live Mode" button in the toolbar (looks like a VCR Play button).