Run the Engine

 

The engine is installed as a Windows service named ‘DS MovusFTtoPIConnector’.

1.Open the services panel by entering services.msc from the Start Menu.

2.Select the service and click on Start (or right click and select Start).


Run the service.

3.By default, the service will be configured with the Automatic (Delayed Start) startup type, to ensure the service returns to operation after a server restart.

 

Backfilling

Data may be backfilled from a particular device, if it is still available in Movus Cloud.

1.Navigate to the AF database containing the FitMachine elements. Find the element of the device you would like to backfill, and ensure the LastAlarmReceivedTimeStamp and LastDataReceivedTimeStamp attributes are set to on or before the date you would like to backfill from. These fields are used by the engine to only retrieve the most recent data during normal operation.


Change received time stamps to before the backfill period.
 

2.Open the settings.xml file for the MovusFMtoPIConnector engine. Adjust the DefaultBackfillDays value to the number of days from the present you would like to backfill from.


Set DefaultBackfillDays setting for the Engine.
 

3.Either wait for the engine to run again, or manually restart the service to force it to immediately begin backfilling data. Progress may be monitored by reading the log file.

4.Verify the data by examining the PI tag history in PI System Explorer. One way to do this is to right click on the desired attribute and select Time Series Data... This will open a table view of the data on the associated PI tag. The time range may be adjusted to the backfill period using standard PI Time notation.


Verify data has been backfilled.

5.Once the backfilling is complete and has been verified, set the DefaultBackfillDays back to the default of 30. This will avoid the engine carrying out unnecessary backfilling on future operations, which could delay processing or clutter the logs.

 

Usage