Add a summary tag

You can add a single analog or state summary tag. This is particularly useful if you have added or modified a tag and simply need to add a summary tag for that one tag.

WARNING! If you are replicating from multiple source tags to the same summary tag on a next-tier replication server, the next-tier logger does not log a message of the naming conflict. As a result, it is possible to have multiple source tags overwriting each other in the same summary tag. Make sure you have a naming convention for your destination tags that avoids potential name collisions.

To add a single summary tag

1. In the Operations Control Management Console, expand a server group and then expand a server.

2. Expand Configuration Editor, expand System Configuration, expand Replication, then expand Replication Servers.

3. Expand the replication server, then expand the Analog Summary Replication or State Summary Replication folder.

4. Right-click the replication group and select Add Single Tag. The New Analog Summary Tag Replication dialog box or New State Summary Tag Replication dialog box appears.

   

5. In the Replication Server box, select the replication server to create the tag on.

6. In the Replication Group box, select the replication group to assign the tag to.

7. If you are defining a state summary tag, in the Maximum States box, type the maximum number of states allowed in the same reporting period. The default number of maximum states is 10. The replication subsystem will calculate summaries for the first 10 distinct states, in the order in which they occur in the data (not in numeric or alphabetic order). The higher the number of maximum states, the more system resources are used to keep track of the time-in-state for each distinct state.

8. In the Source Tag Name box, type the name of the lower-tier tag that provides the source data for the summary tag. For more information on finding a tag, see Find source tags.

9. In the Destination Tag Name box, type the name of the new next-tier summary tag. By default, the destination tag name appears as configured for the SummaryReplicationNamingScheme system parameter or as configured for the replication server.

   Note: The Current Editor option is reserved for future use.

10. Click Finish. The new summary tag appears in the selected replication group.