Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE 3.0 H2H Interface User Guide - Manual (Page 33)

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Chapter 3.
Installation Checklist
If you are familiar with running FactoryTalk Historian data collection interface programs, this
checklist helps you get the interface running. If you are not familiar with Historian Interfaces,
return to this section after reading the rest of the manual in detail.
This checklist summarizes the steps for installing this Interface. You need not perform a
given task if you have already done so as part of the installation of another interface. For
example, you only have to configure one instance of Buffering for every interface node
regardless of how many interfaces run on that node.
The Data Collection Steps below are required. Interface Diagnostics and Advanced Interface
Features are optional.
Data Collection Steps
1. Confirm that you can use SMT to configure the Historian Server. You need not run
SMT on the same computer on which you run this Interface.
2. If you are running the interface on an interface node, edit the Historian Server‟s Trust
Table to allow the interface to write data.
3. Run the installation kit for the Historian Interface Configuration Utility (ICU) on the
interface node if the ICU will be used to configure the interface. This kit runs the PI
SDK installation kit, which installs both the PI API and the PI SDK.
4. Run the installation kit for this Interface. This kit also runs the PI SDK installation kit
which installs both the PI API and the PI SDK if necessary.
5. If you are running the interface on an interface node, check the computer‟s time zone
properties. An improper time zone configuration can cause the Historian Server to
reject the data that this Interface writes.
6. Run the ICU and configure a new instance of this Interface. Essential startup
parameters for this Interface are
Point Source ( /PS=x )
Interface ID ( /ID=# )
Historian Server ( /Host=host:port )
Scan Class( /F=##:##:##,offset )
7. If you will use digital points, define the appropriate digital state sets on receiving
node. These should correspond to digital state sets assigned to source tags.
8. Choose a point source. If Historian 2 home node, create the point source.