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Additional details for these drivers are as follows:

  • FactoryTalk Historical Alarms, FactoryTalk Historical Values, FactoryTalk Real-time Valuesdrivers (Rockwell Automation folder)

    These drivers are available in Dream Report These drivers use Rockwell Automation’s Data Agent SDK. As the SDK works in the FactoryTalk View Client environment only, ensure that FactoryTalk View SE is installed, and that the HMI Server is running.  Please refer to Rockwell Automation’s Product Compatibility for hardware/software requirements.

    Additionally, the Rockwell Automation SDK must be installed on the FactoryTalk server. The install can be found in the Utilities folder of Dream Report -
    \ODs\Dream Report\Utilities\FactoryTalk View Data Agent SDK.msi

    Note, the Data Agent SDK is only applicable for network distributed applications, so the drivers will not work with other types of applications.

    Note, the “Factory Talk real-time values” driver can only work in read-only mode, without write-back functionality.

    If Dream Report is installed on a separate machine than FactoryTalk Server, please refer to Appendix A at the end of this tech note.

  • OSISoft PI Asset Framework historical values, OSISoft PI Asset Framework real-time valuesdrivers (OSIsoft folder)

    These drivers are used for OSI PI-based FT Historian with Asset Framework.

    Please refer to the following tech note on the Dream Report:
    TN 033: How to Configure OSIsoft PI Drivers in Dream Report

  • FactoryTalk View SE Historical Alarms and Events, FactoryTalk View SE Historical Values DB drivers(Rockwell Automation folder)

    The drivers expose historical values as well as historical alarms and events logged to the FactoryTalk SQL databases.

    Please refer to the Dream Report User Manual, section “Communication Drivers/Rockwell” for more information on the driver.

  • OPC HDAdriver (Open communications protocols/OPC folder)

    This driver can be used to connect to FT Historian using the OPC protocol. For the driver to function, the corresponding feature (OPC HDA) must be enabled on the FT Historian side to use this driver.

    Please refer to the Dream Report User Manual, section “Communication Drivers/Open Communication Protocols/OPC Drivers” for more information on the driver.

  • Rockwell PLC Real-Time Values driver (Rockwell Automation folder)

    The Rockwell PLC real-time values driver provides connectivity directly to Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley controllers.

    Please refer to the Dream Report User Manual, section “Communication Drivers/Rockwell” for more information on this driver.

  • RSView Historical Values driver(Rockwell Automation folder)

    The driver allows Dream Report to access RSView32 internal proprietary history archives (.DBF files only), and generate reports directly from that archive, without the necessity of first exporting data into an open database or other format.

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