Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE 4.0 Installation and Configuration Guide User Manual

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Chapter 5 Configuring FactoryTalk Historian

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4. In the Add points to server list, select the FactoryTalk

Historian SE server to which you want to add the points.

5. In the Using data collection interface list, select the

appropriate data collection interface.

6. In the Default scan rate list, select the time interval at which

points will be collected.

7. Under Add points from these sources, select the sources

from which you want to add the points.

8. Under Start searching from, click the tree at the starting

point for the point search. If this is a new server, the root node
in the tree is selected by default.

9. Click Edit Discovery Rules to create rules to be used during

the discovery process. The FactoryTalk Historian Discovery

Rule Editor dialog box appears.

NOTE

For more information on the Discovery Rule Editor click the help

icon in the dialog box.

10. Select Enable data type filter to perform the search using the

default discovery rule.

NOTE

When you check the Enable data type filter option, the

auto-discovery mechanism will get all attributes that match the
name, UDT, and data type rule. When you leave the option

cleared, the mechanism will ignore the data type filter and only
check the name and the UDT rule.

11. Click Next to begin discovering points. The Discovering

Historian Points dialog box displays the progress of point
discovery.
The discovered points are listed in the Confirm New

Historian Points dialog box.

12. Click Confirm Points to accept the search result.
13. In the New Historian Points Discovery Complete dialog

box, click Start. The FactoryTalk Historian SE server starts

collecting the discovered points.

14. Click OK.

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