1. Technical Support Handover
Wonderware Historian 2014 R2

2. Historian 2014 R2 Features
Simple to manage, high performance alarm & event history
Network bandwidth efficiency
System time independence
Retrieval Exception Handling
Easy summaries in ArchestrA Graphic dashboards
Expanded tag types (double)
Power user utilities for value imports & tag rename
Historian
Simple to manage, high performance alarm & event history
Significantly lower network bandwidth usage for storing data (important for WAN applications)
System time independence
Leverage statistical summaries in ArchestrA Graphic dashboards
Continued retrieval performance gains
Remote IDAS: Easier network set up, redundant Historian support
Better handling of data collection problems for reporting
Integration with Citect
Historize data from Vijeo Citect SCADA
Reports using Vijeo Historian Enquire (Excel add-in)
Support for creating standalone distributions
Expanded tag types (double, long)
Web service retrieval interface (replacement for SQLXML)
Remove “ArchestrA User” dependence
Streamed file import (LGH, CSV)
Identity based security for SDK/HCAL
Tag Rename Utility
Historian Client
Supports Online Edition
Retrieval using web service interface (replacement for SQLXML)
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3. Historian Storage Evolution
SuiteLink
Tags
Engine
Historian 10.0
SuiteLink
Tags
Engine
Replicated
Historian 2012 R2
SuiteLink
Tags
Engine
Tags*
Replicated
Historian 2014
SuiteLink
Tags
Alarm & Events
Engine
Tags*
Replicated
Historian 2014 R2
SuiteLink
Tags*
Engine
Replicated
Tags
Alarm & Events
Classic Storage
Storage Engine
SQL Server
Event Storage
* Newly collected data in Storage Engine, previous Classic data still accessible
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4. Historian 2014 Architecture
SQL Server
Historian OLEDB
Active Image
Retrieval
Application Server <3.5
Classic Storage
Storage Engine
Application Server 3.5+
IDAS
Replication
Historian 9.0 SDK
Historian SDK
History Blocks
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5. Historian 2014 R2 Architecture
SQL Server
Historian OLEDB
Active Image
Retrieval
Application Server <3.5
Classic Storage
Classic Storage Redirector
Storage Engine
Application Server 3.5+
IDAS
Replication
Historian 9.0 SDK
Historian SDK
History Blocks
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6. Tag Editor Historian 2014 R2 Historian 2014 & earlier
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7. Unified History: Alarm & Event History
Easier To Manage
Archive/purge/restore using Windows Explorer, etc.
No need to purge to sustain storage
Performance
Significantly higher storage rates
Capacity limited by disk space, not insertion rate
History Blocks
Event Storage
Application Server 4.1
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8. Historian 2014 R2 Architecture
ArchestrA Graphic Alarm Client
Historian Client
Historian Client 2014 R2
Not supported in 2014 R2
Retrieval
oData/REST
WWALMDB
Alarm DB Logger
InTouch
SQL Server
oData/REST
A2ALMDB
Application Server 4.0
Historian OLEDB
Retrieval
Event Storage
Application Server 4.1
Storage Engine
Application Server 3.5+
Replication
Historian SDK
History Blocks
Classic Storage Redirector
Historian 9.0 SDK
IDAS
Application Server <3.5

9. Selecting Alarm & Event Storage
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10. Historian Interface Capabilities
On-Premise 2014 R2
On-Premise Future
Managed
Process
Event
A2ALMDB
SQL read  ?
SQL store
SDK read
SDK store
oData read
oData write
About the question marks:
Event & SQL: We may leverage some third-party software for this, but if we don’t we do expect new versions of tools (such as Reporting Services) to include richer native support for oData in the near future. We also plan on including more flexibile event aggregation as native functionality, which will more directly map to reporting needs.
Managed SDK Retrieval: The main challenge here is authentication/security. We prefer to focus on the oData interface, at least near term.
oData Write: We will have a simple, lightweight web service interface for storing process history and events. This might use oData, but we’re also evaluating more lightweight options.
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11. oData/REST Historian 2014 R2 Use “Historian.htm” General
Simple HTTP queries
Results as JSON
Works in any browser
Recommend Chrome & JSONview extension
Historian 2014 R2
Must be in “aa__” local group
Native Excel 2013 & 365
Recommend Power Query add-in
Exact properties in transition
Use “Historian.htm”
Several example queries
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12. Excel Power Query Copy URL from “Historian.htm”
For PowerPivot, need to add “&format=atom”
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13. Block Management Circular Alternate Buffer Permanent
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14. Block Creation Historian 2014 R2 & later Historian 2014 & earlier
Historian 2014 & earlier
Based on system time
Startup/shutdown
Block duration
Block size
Manual (SMC, stored proc)
Historian 2014 R2 & later
Based on time of data
Assigned based on duration
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15. History Blocks in 2014 R2 “Commit Changes” No More
Only pushes configuration
Applied immediately
No More
“Block changeover”
Manual Block Creation
“Patch Blocks”
New blocks on startup
“Headroom” settings
Removes last of legacy code in system core
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16. Detailed Consequences
System Parameters
AIAutoResize dropped
AIResizeInterval dropped
HeadroomX dropped
TimeSyncMaster dropped
Added MaxSnapshotSize
Stored Procedures No Ops
xp_NewHistoryBlock
xp_RescanHistoryBlock
xp_SetStorageXDeadband
Tag Columns Dropped
AITag
AIRetrievalMode
SamplesInActiveImage
CalculatedAISamples
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17. Time-stamp Age Important for VMs & poorly synchronized clocks
-30.0 sec to
sec
“Timestamp overwritten; values in future”
Historian 9.0
Late
Real-time
Future
“Values in the past did not fit within the real-time window”
“Now” on Server
Future
Streamed
Historian 2012 R2 & 2014 (Application Server only)
“Timestamp overwritten; values in future”
* While in store-forward, future time limits still apply to IDAS
Streamed
Historian 2014 R2 (Application Server & SuiteLink*)
Important for VMs & poorly synchronized clocks
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18. Time Independence Example
Now
5-minutes early
1-minute early
Live
1-minute late
5-minutes late
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19. Connectivity Options oData (REST) Integrated History More secure
Alarm
Event
Process
More secure
Initially, read-only
Namespace Customization
Annotations
Works With
Reporting Services
Excel 2013 & 365
Only accessible via
REST & SDK
SQL (TCP)
oData
SQLXML
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20. LGH, CSV, FastLoad via Utility*
Classic Storage
Storage Engine
Old/Late
Real-time
Non-streamed
Streamed
Time Limits
< t
-30 ≤ t < +1
t < +24 hours*
“Live”  
SuiteLink
(aahIOSvrSvc)
Replication
Queued
Import
LGH, CSV, FastLoad
LGH, CSV, FastLoad via Utility*
SQL
INSERT/ UPDATE
“Realtime”
* New in Historian 2014 R2
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21. File Import (aahImport.exe)
Single file or “Folder Watcher”
Streamed/non-streamed
UI & Command Line
Local/remote
LGH & CSV
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22. Tag Rename
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23. Bullet Chart “Good” Range Target = SP Current = PV FT FFC
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24. Statistics Works okay Can’t use it to compare different periods
Why not use Historian?
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25. Historian Custom Property
Average
Count
First
Integral
Maximum
Minimum
Percent
PercentGood
StdDev
Total
Blank for “now” as end time
For “state” statistics, select which one
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26. Example
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27. Comparison To Extension Table Columns
aaHistoryStat
AnalogSummaryHistory
StateSummaryHistory
Average
StateTimeAvgContained
Count
ValueCount
StateCountContained
First
First*
Integral
Maximum
Maximum*
StateTimeMax
Minimum
Minimum*
StateTimeMinContained
Percent
StateTimePercent
PercentGood
StdDev
Total
StateTimeTotal
* Uses the timestamp of the associated value
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28. Historian Network Bandwidth
53%
savings
92%
savings
No Compression
2014 P1 w/
2014 R2 w/
Compression
Compression*
* Applies to “tier 1”. “Tier 2” savings is 18%. No change for Remote IDAS.
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29. HCAL Packet Optimization
Rationale:
Existing compression ratio was not good for data streaming packet ~ 20%
Customer requires better utilization of bandwidth.
Analysis:
Unique Tag ID precedes every VTQ causing low compression ratio.
Method:
Build tag dictionary - Tag handle (DWORD) for each Tag ID for each connection session.
Use Tag Handle instead of Tag ID in the packet.
Result:
Compression ratio improved ~ 92%
Optimization enabled when compression is enabled.
Transparent to user. Slight increase of Resource Usage
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30. HCAL Packet Optimization
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31. HCAL Diagnostics When Fail to Connect: To See Tag Information:
On Client Computer: Set LogFlag aahClientCommon[Connection] to see WCF exception stack.
On Historian Computer: Check warning messages.
Possible Cause: Invalid Historian name, firewall blocking, incorrect port, invalid credentials etc.
To See Tag Information:
Set Registry Setting [HKLM\…Programs\aahClient] “TraceGlobal”=dword:1 Trace files will be created under c:\aahClientCommon-TraceGlobal
Toggle LogFlag aahClientCommon[TagDump] to see tags reported in the corresponding file.
To Trace Tag Values
See Tracing Document
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32. HCAL Diagnostics To See Buffer Type and Count
Set LogFlag aahClientCommon[BufferCount] Buffer Type ‘SF’ – Partial Store/Forward (Tags not synchronized or values time less than cut-off time) Buffer Type ‘Streaming’ – Regular Buffer
To See Buffer Destination (Historian or SF) and Size
Set LogFlag aahClientCommon[BufferTransmit]
To Find Out Reasons that Store/Forward Files not Forwarded:
Set LogFlag aahClientCommon[StoreForward].
Or Set Registry Setting [HKLM\…Programs\aahClient] “TraceGlobal”=dword:1 and check the trace file.
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33. HCAL Diagnostics To See Data Transmission Activities in HCAL:
Set LogFlag aahClientCommon[Operation]
To See Status Checking/Management Activities
Set LogFlag aahClientCommon[ServerStatus]
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34. HCAP Diagnostics To See Incoming Requests from All Clients
Set LogFlag aahClientAccessPoint[Operation]
To See Status Checking/Management with Clients and Other Components:
Set LogFlag aahClientAccessPoint[ServerStatus].
To See Buffer Information Received from Clients:
Set LogFlag aahClientAccessPoint[BufferTransmit]
To See Status Checking/Management Activities
Set LogFlag aahClientCommon[ServerStatus]
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35. HCAP Diagnostics To Trace Tags from Client – See Trace Document
To See Tag Information:
Set Registry Setting [HKLM\…Programs\aahClientAccessPoint] “TraceGlobal”=dword:1 Trace files will be created under c:\aahClientAccessPoint-TraceGlobal
Toggle LogFlag aahClientAccessPoint[TagDump] to see tags and their last value received.
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36. System Platform 2014 R2 Distribution
4.6 GB
Historian: 98 MB
Historian Client: 180 MB
Prerequisites: 295 MB
SQL Express: 1,300 MB
Supported approach to create subsets
Does not expand compatibility
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37. Tag Editor
Historian 2014 R2
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38. IEEE Floating Point π = 3.1415927 π = 3.1415926535898
Single Precision (32-bits)
8-bit exponent
23-bit fraction
~7 decimal places
Double Precision (64-bits)
11-bit exponent
52-bit fraction
~13 decimal places
π =
π =
True value of π = … 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
What if your instrument has 5-digits of precision?
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39. Is Your System Like This?
As Designed
Reality
Expanded support for “optimistic” quality
More robust “counter”
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40. Counter: Routinely Rolls Over
11-Apr-17
Counter: Routinely Rolls Over
Infer these points
Rollover Point
(c) 2005 Invensys Systems, Inc.

41. Counter False Rollovers Introduced Reverse
Reset (when normally rollover)
Introduced
Counter Deadband
0=pre-R2 behavior
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42. Optimistic Full Optimistic
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43. Optimistic: Initial Value
select DateTime, Value, wwResolution, Quality, QualityDetail, OPCQuality
from History
where TagName in ('LocalRamp.WaveQ')
and DateTime = ' :45:00'
and wwRetrievalMode='delta'
and wwQualityRule='optimistic'
Full
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44. Quality Handling Optimistic Good
Suppressed all bad quality points with OPC Quality < 64 (excluding vendor bits).
Good
Suppressed all uncertain quality points with OPC Quality >= 64 and < 192 (excluding vendor bits)
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45. Optimistic Quality
No Quality rule Optimistic Quality rule

46. Optimistic Quality Improved back tracking for quality rule
No Quality rule
Optimistic Quality rule

47. System Tag Changes CPU SysPerfCPUn: Deprecated
SysPerfCPUTotal: Across all cores (unchanged)
SysPerfMax: Highest single-core load
SysPerfserviceCPU: % across all cores (previously for a single core, even on multicore systems)
Memory
SysPerfcomponentBytes: Now modulo 4GB
SysPerfcomponentMBytes: New
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48. System Tag Changes: CPU
<R2
100%
Total
( )/4 =38%
Max
MAX(25,75,0,50) =75%
Service
( )/4 =19%
75%
50%
25% 0% 1 2 3
Core
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49. Historian 2014 R2 Is Amazing!
Simple to manage, high performance alarm & event history
Impressive network bandwidth efficiency
System time independence
Easy summaries in ArchestrA Graphic dashboards
Expanded tag types (double)
Power user utilities for value imports & tag rename
Historian
Simple to manage, high performance alarm & event history
Significantly lower network bandwidth usage for storing data (important for WAN applications)
System time independence
Leverage statistical summaries in ArchestrA Graphic dashboards
Continued retrieval performance gains
Remote IDAS: Easier network set up, redundant Historian support
Better handling of data collection problems for reporting
Integration with Citect
Historize data from Vijeo Citect SCADA
Reports using Vijeo Historian Enquire (Excel add-in)
Support for creating standalone distributions
Expanded tag types (double, long)
Web service retrieval interface (replacement for SQLXML)
Remove “ArchestrA User” dependence
Streamed file import (LGH, CSV)
Identity based security for SDK/HCAL
Tag Rename Utility
Historian Client
Supports Online Edition
Retrieval using web service interface (replacement for SQLXML)
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50. Historian Scalability
2014 (aka 11.5)
2,000,000
Tiered
Challenge: Manageability
2012 R2 (aka 11.0)
500,000
Tiered
2012 (aka 10.0)
150,000
Tiered
100,000
Managed
9.0
(released 2005)
Challenge: Performance
~70,000 licenses sold
vs. ~800,000 InTouch licenses
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51. Managed Historian Drive Historian into new applications
HMI-only embedded (OEM) applications
Targeted VAR applications (e.g. water, coal seam gas)
Small applications in large customers (e.g. 5-tag farm)
Remove obstacles to a Historian
De-skill setup (5-minutes or less, zero training)
Eliminate all routine maintenance (disk, passwords, etc.)
Convert from capital to operational costs
Not about converting existing customers
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52. Historian Publisher Conceptually, combination of Will be extended for
Setup wizard with login to managed Historian account
An InTouch tag Importer—selects all historized tags
A “Remote IDAS” for managed Historian
Will be extended for
Citect SCADA
Indusoft & InTouch Machine Edition
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53. Client Connectivity Options
On-Premise
Managed
SQL (TCP)
oData*
Historian Client 2014 R2
Late 2014
Trend only
* On-premise oData support in Historian 2014 R2 Patch 1
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54. × + ? ? Responsibilities Licensing Servers Tags Clients CALs
Managed
On-Premise
Customer
Customer
Customer
Licensing
Servers
Tags
Clients
User
Device
Concurrent
CALs + × ? ?
Subscription:
Users + Term
InTouch
Historian
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