iFix Historian into a FactoryTalk Historian?

[terlizziJ]

Has anyone ever heard of migrating data from an iFix Historian into a FactoryTalk Historian? I am betting the easiest thing to do is to just keep the iFix Historian database active and accessible, but it would be nice to bring it all into one Historian eventually.

 

[Ken Moore]

Factory Talk Historians are just Osi-PI with a different front end. If you contact a PI historian integrator or PI itself. There are means to migrate almost anything into PI.

 

[terlizziJ]

Thanks for the reply. I dug in a little deeper since and you sir, are correct.

 

[harryting]

FT Historian is PI but it only can talk to Allen Bradley PLC through RSLinx, I think. or that you have to pay extra if you want FT Historian to talk to a generic OPC server.

Porting old data from iFix would be a bit more complicated but is possible. https://pisquare.osisoft.com/s/question/0D51I00004UHkyBSAT/import-data

 

[NetNathan]

Maybe an export/import feature?

 

[Ken Moore]

FT Historian can connect to external OPC servers (you have to add the server to your project tree), and the standard license allows up to 10% of your tag count to be from external sources.