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

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Chapter 1 Overview

Rockwell Automation Publication HSE-IN025A-EN-E–September 2013

FactoryTalk Historian SE is closely integrated with FactoryTalk
Services Platform and the following Rockwell Automation
applications:

Application

Description

FactoryTalk Live Data
(FTLD)

A direct data interface to FTLD delivers native FTLD data directly to
FactoryTalk Historian SE without requiring intermediate interfaces

and standards such as OPC.

FactoryTalk Directory FactoryTalk Historian SE uses FactoryTalk Directory to look up data

points for configuring points to historize. The FactoryTalk Directory

is also used for auto-discovering controller data sources and tags in
the initial configuration process.

FactoryTalk

Activation

FactoryTalk Historian SE is activated by Rockwell Automation's

central licensing system based on the FactoryTalk Activation Server.

FactoryTalk
Diagnostics

Because of a close integration of FactoryTalk Historian SE with
FactoryTalk Diagnostics, all system and diagnostics messages from

FactoryTalk Historian SE are centrally stored and maintained in the
FactoryTalk Diagnostics database.

FactoryTalk Audit

All FactoryTalk Historian SE Server auditing messages are stored
and available in the FactoryTalk Audit database.

FactoryTalk View SE
Trending

FactoryTalk View Site Edition natively trends data from FactoryTalk
Historian SE.

FactoryTalk Historian
Machine Edition (ME)

FactoryTalk Historian ME provides a Data Transfer service to allow
its logged data to be transferred to the FactoryTalk Historian SE for

long-term storage and analysis.

FactoryTalk
VantagePoint

The data from multiple FactoryTalk Historian SE Servers and
FactoryTalk Historian ME Servers can be brought together into a

single information management and decision support system using
FactoryTalk VantagePoint.

FactoryTalk Batch

The event journal data from your FactoryTalk Batch system can be

collected through the FactoryTalk Batch Interface and stored within
FactoryTalk Historian SE.

Integration with Other
Rockwell Automation
Products