AVEVA™ Historian Server

Module 1 – Introduction

• Section 1 – Course Introduction
  • This section describes the AVEVA™ Historian Server course objectives and agenda.
• Section 2 – Introduction to Historian
  • This section describes the main functions and features of Historian, explains how it relates to other AVEVA software offerings, describes the relationship to other AVEVA software offerings, and explains the capabilities of AVEVA Online.
• Section 3 – System Requirements and Licensing
  • This section provides an overview of the general hardware recommendations and software requirements for Historian. It also explains the licensing models.

 

Module 2 – Historian Configuration

• Section 1 – Configurator
  • This section describes Historian configuration options. It also discusses the Historian security options, describes the Historian search configuration, and explains the Historian reporting configuration.
• Section 2 – Historian and the System Management Console
  • This section describes the Operations Control Management Console (OCMC). It provides an overview of its interface and explains how to set startup permissions and start Historian. It also describes Historian options and system parameters and discusses Historian history block configuration and behavior. This section also discusses the configuration of engineering units and describes the engineering units catalog.

 

Module 3 – Historian and System Platform

• Section 1 – Integrating Historian with System Platform
  • This section explains the basics of how Historian integrates with the Galaxy. It also describes how to configure platforms, engines, and object attributes for historization. This section also discusses extended properties for tags using aliases.

 

Module 4 – Historian and InTouch HMI

• Section 1 – Historian and InTouch HMI
  • This section explains the basics of historizing data from InTouch HMI applications. It describes the Tag Importer Wizard (IDAS), the historization option from InTouch configuration (HCAL), defines storage options, and explains manual tag configuration. This section also discussed extended properties for tags in the OCMC.

 

Module 5 – Data Retrieval

• Section 1 – Retrieve Data with Historian Client Web
  • This section describes how to retrieve data using Historian Client Web. It explains the different methods of data representation, adding annotations, and explains how to save and share content. It also discusses the alarm retrieval tool and explains searching for tags using extended properties.
• Section 2 – Data Retrieval Subsystem
  • This section describes the Historian data retrieval subsystem, the Historian OLE DB provider, and extension tables for history data. It explains the syntax for basic SQL queries and demonstrates how to use Live, History, Wide History, and Summary History options to display data, as well as UOM conversion using queries. It discusses the auto-summary features of Historian and explains the syntax for the OPENQUERY function in SQL queries.
• Section 3 – Retrieval Modes
  • This section describes Historian retrieval modes, with a focus on Cyclic, Delta, Full, and BestFit. It also explains how to use retrieval modes in SQL queries. It goes on to discuss using wwResolution and wwCycleCount for cyclic retrieval as well as wwExpression for scaling to alternative engineering units.

 

Module 6 – Manual Data

• Section 1 – Data Definitions
  • This section defines Historian data categories. It explains original versus revision data, as well as streamed versus non-streamed original data. Further, it explains the possibilities of inserting data into future retrievals.
• Section 2 – INSERT and UPDATE Query Syntax
  • This section describes data versioning and explains the INSERT and UPDATE query syntax.
• Section 3 – Importing and Backfilling Historical Data
  • This section describes the methods of importing historical data using a .CSV file. It discusses Historian data folder methods and executable methods and explains how to backfill auto-summary data.

 

Module 7 – Summaries and Data Replication

• Section 1 – Data Summarization and Replication
  • This section explains the concept of Tiered Historians, describes analog and state summary replication, and explains naming schemes for the replication process. It describes how to summarize data locally, as well as how to summarize to a Tier-2 Historian. It also describes how to do simple replication to a Tier-2 Historian.
• Section 2 – Summarized and Replicated Data Retrieval
  • This section describes how to retrieve summarized and replicated data from a Tier-2 Historian. It also reviews AnalogSummaryHistory and StateSummaryHistory views.

 

Module 8 – Historian Maintenance

• Section 1 – History Block Maintenance
  • This section explains how to back up and restore history blocks. It goes on to discuss the volume shadow copy.
• Section 2 – Historian Database Management
  • This section explains how and when to back up Historian databases.

Appendix A – Additional Retrieval Options for Queries

• Section 1 – Retrieval Options
  • This section describes Historian retrieval options, with a focus on wwResolution, wwCycleCount, wwEdgeDetection, and wwFilter. It also explains the usage of wwRetrievalmode = Startbound/Endbound when querying history, and the usage of SliceBy options when retrieving data from AnalogSummaryHistory.
• Section 2 – Advanced Retrieval Modes
  • This section describes phantom cycles. It defines Historian advanced retrieval modes, including Average, Counter, Integral, Interpolated, Maximum, Minimum, RoundTrip, Slope, and ValueState retrieval modes.