Manual for 800xA

This manual provides comprehensive guidance on the administration and configuration of 800xA History. It covers basic navigation, creating history logs and tags, viewing reports, performing calculations, retrieving data, defining tables, and managing Data Collector Nodes and History Servers. Key features of History include its role as a traditional historian with RDBMS functions, fault-tolerant remote data collection, high-performance storage, data aggregation and calculation capabilities, secure connectivity, long-term data storage, and standard data access interfaces (OPC and ODBC).

Specific sections detail engineering and configuration steps using 800xA and Vtrin, visualization and data access methods (DataDirect, Trend Display), OPC interfaces (DA, HDA, UA), ODBC connectivity, and Excel data source configuration. Maintenance and administration procedures, including diagnostics, troubleshooting, backup and restore, and system failure recovery, are also outlined. The manual further elaborates on configuring archives, managing archive media, and accessing archived data.