Data Server Introduction

The Movicon.NExT I/O Data Server module  is an essential feature to the platform's projects as a communication and data manager server.  The Data Server manages communication with the field and third party systems by defining and centralizing information dynamically using Tags described in the project's Tag List resource (Address Space).

In addition the Server manages alarms and records events in the Historical Log.

Ultimately, the Data Server can historically data log process data collected in Tags using the Historian and Data Logger archive manager as an option.   

As shown below, the Movicon.NExT Server module is designed to manage:

• Data Communication

• Alarm Manager

• Historical Log management

This diagram shows the structure of the Data Server which manages communications, the alarm manger and historicals.

The I/O Data Server module is available from the project resource tree structure.   When opening this resource, the workspace open up displaying the general settings and providing access to all the Server's functionality configurations that include the Tag List and others provided with the module as described in this guide.