Historian
The Historian is a built-in feature of Fernhill SCADA and there is no additional setup required to use it.
The Historian offers two separate data stores:
- Historic Data - where you can store the value of any data point tag historically.
- Event Log - where an audit of user actions is stored.
Historic Data
To store a Data Point Tag historically, just go to the tag configuration properties and set HistoricEnable to True:
As soon as you have enabled historic storage, Fernhill SCADA starts recording the data in the Historian.
Additional properties allow you to setup:
- Significant change deadband
- Sample Interval
- Number of samples stored
The Trend Display allows you to view historic data in the historian:
You can also access historic data point tag data from:
- The Show Historic Data option in the configuration tool Tag Window Menu
- A Text Report Tag.
- 3rd party OPC aware applications using the OPC Historic Data Access server
- 3rd party ADO.NET aware applications using the ADO.NET Data Provider.
- 3rd party ODBC aware applications using the ODBC Driver.
Event Log
Viewing the Event Log:
Three types of event are recorded in the event log:
- Tracking - An event directly caused by an operator action
- Condition - An event related to a change in state of an alarm condition
- Simple - All other events not related to an operator action or alarm condition
You can access the Event Log from:
- The Show Events option in the configuration tool Tag Window Menu
- The view menu in the Fernhill SCADA Notification Icon.
- 3rd party OPC aware applications using the OPC Alarm and Event server
- 3rd party ADO.NET aware applications using the ADO.NET Data Provider.
- 3rd party ODBC aware applications using the ODBC Driver.