The Sapphire Collector

This section describes the basic principles employed by the Sapphire Collector, and how to use the stManager to configure and control your Collector.

Note: A quick start guide is also available here.

The Facts

• The Sapphire Collector is a data Historian capable of scanning data at frequencies down to 1/100th of a second accuracy.  

• It does not employ any data compression or interpolation techniques.  The data is stored exactly as it was read from the underlying Data Sources.

• It can read data from:

1. • DA OPC Servers.

   • SNMP enabled devices.

   • Windows performance counters (such as those available via the windows Perfmon application).

   • Network ping statistics.

   • The output of a script file which is in the required "MyItem", "value" format.  This could be a Python script reading data from the web, VB Script, or an MS-DOS batch file..

• A single Sapphire Collector can collect from multiple Data Sources.

• The Sapphire Collector employs role, account and network address based security to control client access to the data.

• It is configured and controlled by the stManager, a stand alone desktop application.  The stManager can be run locally on the same node as the Sapphire Collector, or it can connect remotely to any other Sapphire Collector within the local domain.

• Data held within the Sapphire Collector can be exported to user configurable text file formats, and can also be accessed via an OPC Server that supports both DA and HDA reads.