Dave, In answer to your questions: > On the remote collector machine (w2k server) in the configuration menu > is > the rtp, messages, reduction, and the other component configurations. I > do > not have access to an AIM historian machine at the moment, but in the > component configurations there is a tab for defining the local > collector > attributes and the remote collector attributes. This is where you would > define which station is the AW collector for the instance. It can be > defined by IP or name assuming it is in the host file. Right, I think I understand what you were asking for now. I'll put a copy of the configuration at the end of this email. > Have you gone back and looked to see if the /etc/histlns and > /etc/histlocs > files remain as you originally built them? Curious... Yes, these files remain. Committals have the potential to change these, but don't unless I've made sysdef changes that would cause them to be rewritten. Thanks for helping! Regards, Kevin FitzGerrell Carter Holt Harvey, Ltd. +64 27 460 9994 Configuration follows (from the .inp file generated by histcsave run on the instance machine - w2k server): ## AIM*HISTORIAN CONFIGURATION: # 1 PUT AIMHIST puhs01 ARCHSIZE 10000000 RTTIME = 86400 MSGFILE = 1000000 MAXPTS = 20000 MAXCGENTS = 4000 # Max # of points authorized for server machine. DO NOT SET THIS VALUE # MXSRVPTS = 20000 MAXRGENTS = 4000 MAXLOG = 1000000 TRACKKEY = 4000 MSGDEFS = 4000 LRCCALC = NO DBPATH = "" EMAIL = "" LOGFILE_NAME = d:\aim\inst\historian.log STARTONBOOT = 1 FHDESC = "" COMPRESS = NO REDUCLEVEL = 0 PCTVALID = 0 REDUCPHASE = 0 REDPHASEUNIT = 3 USEREDFILES = NO SCANPEAKS = NO REDFASTUNIT = 4 REDMEDUNIT = 4 REDSLOWUNIT = 5 REDFASTINT = 1 REDMEDINT = 8 REDSLOWINT = 1 IATIME = YES ENABLE_STUBS = NO TESTCKFACTOR = 1000 MDEGETMETHOD = ALL # ## STATION CONFIGURATION: # # ## STATION :REALTIME_SERVER # 1 CREATE STATION REALTIME_SERVER ISIA = YES TYPE = REALTIME_SERVER PLATFORM = NT TZ = GMT DST = NO NODE = 1 ISREMOTE = NO COLPORT = 44444 CSTARTONBOOT = NO FOLLOWINSTON = NO FOLLOWINSTOF = NO MINCOLCYCLE = 0 # ## STATION :MESSAGE_SERVER # 1 CREATE STATION MESSAGE_SERVER ISIA = YES TYPE = MESSAGE_SERVER PLATFORM = NT TZ = GMT DST = NO NODE = 1 ISREMOTE = NO COLPORT = 44444 CSTARTONBOOT = NO FOLLOWINSTON = NO FOLLOWINSTOF = NO MINCOLCYCLE = 0 # ## STATION :puhs01 # 1 CREATE STATION puhs01 ISIA = YES TYPE = IA_RT_COLLECTOR PLATFORM = NT TZ = GMT DST = NO NODE = 1 CIRCFILESIZE = 1000000 BURSTINT = 0 BURSTBTPCT = 10 BURSTTTPCT = 90 SENDPASSSECS = 0.2 RECVPASSUPDS = 1000 CONSLEEPSECS = 5 ISREMOTE = NO COLPORT = 44444 CSTARTONBOOT = YES FOLLOWINSTON = YES FOLLOWINSTOF = NO MINCOLCYCLE = 500 # ## STATION :puhc01 # 1 CREATE STATION puhc01 ISIA = YES TYPE = IA_RT_COLLECTOR PLATFORM = SOLARIS TZ = GMT DST = NO NODE = 1 CIRCFILESIZE = 1000000 BURSTINT = 0 BURSTBTPCT = 10 BURSTTTPCT = 90 SENDPASSSECS = 0.2 RECVPASSUPDS = 1000 CONSLEEPSECS = 5 ISREMOTE = YES HOSTNAME = P101AW COLPORT = 44444 CSTARTONBOOT = YES FOLLOWINSTON = YES FOLLOWINSTOF = NO MINCOLCYCLE = 500 # ## STATION :puhc02 # 1 CREATE STATION puhc02 ISIA = YES TYPE = IA_RT_COLLECTOR PLATFORM = SOLARIS TZ = GMT DST = NO NODE = 1 CIRCFILESIZE = 1000000 BURSTINT = 0 BURSTBTPCT = 10 BURSTTTPCT = 90 SENDPASSSECS = 0.2 RECVPASSUPDS = 1000 CONSLEEPSECS = 5 ISREMOTE = YES HOSTNAME = P201AW COLPORT = 44444 CSTARTONBOOT = YES FOLLOWINSTON = YES FOLLOWINSTOF = NO MINCOLCYCLE = 500 # ## STATION :puhc04 # 1 CREATE STATION puhc04 ISIA = YES TYPE = IA_RT_COLLECTOR PLATFORM = SOLARIS TZ = GMT DST = NO NODE = 1 CIRCFILESIZE = 1000000 BURSTINT = 0 BURSTBTPCT = 10 BURSTTTPCT = 90 SENDPASSSECS = 0.2 RECVPASSUPDS = 1000 CONSLEEPSECS = 5 ISREMOTE = YES HOSTNAME = P401AW COLPORT = 44444 CSTARTONBOOT = YES FOLLOWINSTON = YES FOLLOWINSTOF = NO MINCOLCYCLE = 500 # ## STATION :puhc03 # 1 CREATE STATION puhc03 ISIA = YES TYPE = IA_RT_COLLECTOR PLATFORM = SOLARIS TZ = GMT DST = NO NODE = 1 CIRCFILESIZE = 1000000 BURSTINT = 0 BURSTBTPCT = 10 BURSTTTPCT = 90 SENDPASSSECS = 0.2 RECVPASSUPDS = 1000 CONSLEEPSECS = 5 ISREMOTE = YES HOSTNAME = P301AW COLPORT = 44444 CSTARTONBOOT = YES FOLLOWINSTON = YES FOLLOWINSTOF = NO MINCOLCYCLE = 500 _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave