External Archive Servers And Reporting System; Process Historian And Information Server - Siemens PCS 7 Installation Manual

Note on the use of a dedicated Maintenance Station on a redundant, fault-tolerant plant bus
When connecting an MS server on a separate PC station via two standard network adapters,
for example, Intel Desktop adapters, to a redundant plant bus (two separate rings) keep in
mind that the IP addresses of the ring devices in ring 1 and ring 2, as well as the two standard
network adapters connected to these rings, must be located in different IP address ranges.
Example:
● Ring 1
– IP address range: 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.255
– Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
● Ring 2
– IP address range: 192.168.2.0 - 192.168.2.255
– Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
Additional information
● Appendix "Approved configurations (Page 142)"
● Manual
3.6.5

External archive servers and reporting system

3.6.5.1

Process Historian and Information Server

The Process Historian is used in PCS 7 as an external server for long-term archiving of system
data.
The Information Server is used in PCS 7 as a reporting system for plant data that are archived
on the Process Historian.
Overview of Process Historian and Information Server
Function
Saving data
● Messages and process values
● OS reports
● BATCH reports
Displaying data
● Visualize messages and process
values via filter functions
● Showing BATCH reports
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Process Control System PCS 7; Maintenance Station
Process Historian
Central long-term archiving
system
from various PCS 7 projects
Archiving
Archiving
possible at any time
PC components of a PCS 7 system
3.6 Solutions for multiple station systems
Information Server
Central system for creating and distributing reports
based on the data stored in the Process Historian
possible at any time
possible
Report as PDF file
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