Configure general logging properties storage to Historian

You can set general logging properties that apply to the selected application.

Configure storage to Historian

1. If necessary, close the InTouch application running in WindowViewer.

2. Open WindowMaker.

3. On the File menu, select Configure, and then select Historical logging.

   The Historical logging configuration screen appears.

4. Select the Historian logging tab.

   

5. Select the Enable storage to historian checkbox.

6. In the Historian node name box, type the node name of the computer running the Historian server. You can also specify the IP address and if the server is installed on the same machine you can use ‘localhost’. Only the following special characters are allowed; full stop (.), underscore (_) and hyphen (-).

7. In the History store forward directory box, type the path to the local folder location where the files related to store forward are stored. The files will allow the historical data to stored temporarily if the connection to the Historian server is lost. After the connection is established, the Historian server will sync with the files from this store forward directory and preserve all information.

8. Select Log alarms and events to enable logging alarms and events. Specify the alarm query in the Alarm query text box.

   Note: If different InTouch applications store tag data to the same Historian server and use the same tag name, the InTouch applications will not detect such a scenario and may cause the Historian data to overlap. Use a unique prefix or suffix to differentiate between applications. For more information, see Configure the affix string.

9. Select Save.

   The logging configuration changes become effective immediately. Logging begins the next time you run the application.

For more information about setting up trend printing, see Print a trend at run time.