Ovation® Process Historian (OV245-WIN)

Scheduled Dates

• January 28 - February 1, 2008
• April 14-18, 2008
• June 23-27, 2008
• October 13-17, 2008

Prerequisites
Students must have a good understanding of the Ovation® system architecture and how database point records are built and maintained in an Ovation Windows-based system. It is recommended that students attend the OV100-WIN course prior to attending this course.

Description
This course will teach students to configure and retrieve historical data using the Ovation Process Historian. The course covers data collection, data storage and data retrieval. Students will learn how to configure Ovation points and the Ovation system for data collection. The Ovation Process Historian hardware and database schema is reviewed in detail. Some of the various methods of data retrieval that will be discussed include Report Manager, Crystal Reports, Historical Review, and Historical Trend. This course is intended for those students who will configure, access and maintain the Ovation Process Historian and the Report Scanner/Report Generator.

Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, using the reference material provided, the student will be able to:

1. Describe the functions of the Ovation Process Historian and related components
2. Configure scanners and points for collection
3. Recognize the Ovation Process Historian database schema and understand the concept of a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)
4. Understand the Ovation Process Historian architecture and hardware
5. Install and configure the Ovation Process Historian Report Manager
6. Schedule, automate and manipulate reports
7. Distribute reports using various techniques such as email, web publishing, printers and various output files
8. Create custom reports and ad-hoc queries using various third-party applications such as Crystal Reports, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access and SQL
9. Create historical trends and build global trend groups
10. Create Historical Point, Alarm, SOE, Operator Event, ASCII and common reviews
11. Analyze the Ovation Process Historian with the diagnostic tools available

Course Components

Module 1

• Compare the eDB Historian with the Ovation Process Historian (OPH)
• Identify and use OPH terminology
• Describe the general functions of a scanner, OPH, and report manager
• Use the Ovation Process Historian diagnostics application to determine the status of various OPH processes, services, redundancy scanners and communications
• Access the OPH configuration tool
• Load OPH software components
• Understand the location and function of the different software components

Module 2

• Understand the scanning and collection criteria
• Modify scanner configurations and scanner buffer sizes
• Configure scan groups and points for collection
• Validate and load historian configurations
• Configure Ovation Sequence of Events (SOE) points for collection
• Configure operator events, alarm events and the SOE logger
• Monitor scanner statistics to evaluate scanning and collection
• Access the lab data application to store non-Ovation data
• Monitor the System Status Diagram to determine if there are any OPH errors

• Use the Historian License Manager to view licensed products
• Understand why RAID 5 is used to secure data, increase system performance and ease maintenance
• Identify the Historian hardware architecture, drives and important files
• Use the Engineering Tool to configure the Historian server, disks and removable media
• Understand how to load, unload, lock and unlock historical data files
• Troubleshoot the Historian using the Status Explorer and the OPH log file
• Identify the data tables and their commonly used fields

• Access Ovation operator applications, historical review and historical trends
• Build global trend point groups and OPH point groups in the Developer Studio

• Install and configure Report Manager software
• Add, define and generate the following reports:
  • Point - Express Calc
  • Point - Direct
  • Alarm
  • Text
  • SOE
• Setup timed, trigger and demand event report generations
• Modify general, SOE and trigger configurations
• Configure reports storage management
• Run the export and import functions to make an identical copy of a Report Manager station

• Build and save a Crystal report using OPH data
• Use Field Explorer to insert data fields, formulas, parameter and special fields
• Use Select Expert to filter data and reduce Crystal report processing time
• Refresh reports with saved and new data
• Use Crystal to sort, group, summarize and subtotal data
• Understand the difference and when to use Point - Direct and Point - Express Calc reports
• Format fields by selecting the “X-2” icon
• Build custom reports to retrieve historical data, such as configured points, alarm management and Express Calc
• Prepare Crystal rpt files for Report Manager
• Appreciate how data can be retrieved by the OPH, History Console Tool and MS Excel

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