Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE 3.0 UniInt Interface User Guide - Manual (Page 4)

Introduction
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Windows Performance Counters ................................................................................................ 33
Requirements .................................................................................................... 33
Installing and Removing Interface Performance Counters ................................ 33
Verifying Successful Performance Counter Operation ...................................... 34
Viewing Performance Counter Data .................................................................. 35
Historizing Performance Counter Data .............................................................. 35
UniInt Performance Counters ............................................................................ 35
Changed Counters (Interface Upgrades) .......................................................... 36
Troubleshooting Performance Counter Problems ............................................. 37
Interface Health Points ................................................................................................................. 39
Extended Descriptor Requirements .................................................................. 41
General Interface Health Tags .......................................................................... 42
Interface Point Count ......................................................................................... 43
IO Rate 43
Message Counter .............................................................................................. 44
Output Rate ....................................................................................................... 44
Output Bad Value Rate ...................................................................................... 44
Trigger Input Rate .............................................................................................. 45
Trigger Input Bad Value Rate ............................................................................ 45
Scan Class Health Tags .................................................................................... 45
Scan Class Scan Time ...................................................................................... 48
Scan Class Input Device Scan Time ................................................................. 48
Interface Disconnected Startup ................................................................................................... 49
Disconnected Startup Requirements ................................................................. 49
Operating Systems ............................................................................................ 49
Interface ............................................................................................................. 50
Buffering ............................................................................................................ 50
Point Synchronization and Historian Server Connections ................................. 51
Point Modifications on the Historian Server and Interface Restarts .................. 51
Limitations ......................................................................................................... 52
Extended Attribute Lengths ............................................................................... 52
Interfaces Using the PI SDK .............................................................................. 52
Outputs 53
Startup Command File Configuration ................................................................ 54
Sample Interface Startup Files .......................................................................... 55
ICU Configuration .............................................................................................. 55
Disconnected Startup Architecture .................................................................... 59
Operation ........................................................................................................... 60
Creation ............................................................................................................. 61
Validation ........................................................................................................... 62
Construction ...................................................................................................... 62
Utilization ........................................................................................................... 63
Synchronization ................................................................................................. 64