The Configuration Screen allows you to configure the Collector's settings.

• Live OPSDATAXML Files - The location where you want the live data OPSDATAXML files stored. The Collector automatically monitors the source tags that you defined and writes it's data to a series of xml files that will be read by the Interface.


• Historical OPSDATAXML Files - The location where you want the historical data OPSDATAXML files stored. These are the files that get generated when you manually import historical data.
• Collector Import Schedule - configure when the collector is scheduled to import data:
  
  • Daily -the collector will run ONCE per day, at the specified schedule. E.g., to run it at 2:30 am, you would enter "2" into the hours box and "30" into the minutes box. Note that time is entered in "military" format. To enter 4:45 pm, you would enter "16" into the hours box, NOT 4.
    
  • Hourly - the collecotr will run every hour at the specified minute after the hour
    
  • Minutely- the interface will run every X minutes where X is a number between 1 and 1440. E.g., to run it every 1 minute, you would enter "1".

• Collector Troubleshooting Log Detail - Used to specifiy how much aplication runtime information to log. The higher the log level the more detail that will be logged. This information will let you know how the program is performing and alert to issues that may need to be addressed.

• Compress XML Files - Check this option if you want to compress the OPSDATAXML files that the collector is generating. If you are collecting many tags the OPSDATAXML files that get generated can get rather large. By compressing them it can take a typical 2MB file and compress it to about 200KB.

• Encrypt XML Files - Check this option if you want to encrypt the data that is stored in the OPSDATAXML files. The Interface will decrypt the files when it uploads the data into WIMS. It should also be noted that when you encrypt the files it also compresses them at the same time.

• Enable Data Viewer - When the Collector is being run as a Windows Tray Application you have the option of whether or not to view the live data of the source tags you are importing. If this is checked, the data viewer will appear below the activity log.

• Collector Uses UTC Times - The Collector will convert the data to UTC Times unless the data already uses UTC Times. Only check this if you are sure that your Collector is using UTC Times. UTC stands for Universal Time Coordinated. It is a coordinated time scale, maintained by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). It is also known a "Z time" or "Zulu Time".