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ABB Ability™ History is a time series database (TSDB) with services from data ingestion, including master protocols for data acquisition, to real-time monitoring, analytics, and control. It contains application development tools that can be used to collect and visualize data, build software products and systems for utilities and manufacturing process industries, and integrate with other systems.

ABB Ability™ History contains integrated software modules that together provide a highly scalable software platform. The applications vary from standalone embedded data logger for a piece of equipment up to large process historian system, or extended Collaborative Production Management (CPM) solution that integrates the real-time performance measures with the current business context to support fast operational decision-making on the plant or utility level.

About this document

This document describes the major new functionality of the latest ABB Ability™ History continuous integration technology release.

Detailed technical release notes on individual new functionality as well as bug fixes are presented in the download pages in wiki (CI/CD builds are located under the ABB Ability™ History Stable Build section) and they can also be found in the distribution media.

Release content

This chapter describes the summary of major new or enhanced functionalities and also some major bug fixes in the latest ABB Ability™ History CI/CD releases according to the release dates.

Released in August 2025

  • History and core RTDB:
    • Raspberry Pi setup
    • Enhancements to internal event triggering (multiple active alarms, plant mode etc)
    • Change event Trigger ConfigurationString into separate columns
    • You can now link variable to another variable or equipment property
    • VtrinLib now supports .svg icons
    • Expressions now recognize "null" -keyword
    • RTDB_ServiceManager services name matching for -group
    • SystemMonitor performance improvements
    • .NET 8.0 and .NET 4.8.1 now installed by the monolithic RTDB project installer for Windows
    • Vtrin Server's LDAP authentication now works on Linux too
    • VtrinLib Driver API changes to reduce amount of dictionary lookups
    • Oracle driver
    • Setting up RTDB_upgrade_database to be installed as a separate component
    • Make components installation/uninstallation run in determined order
    • Improvements to Vtrin Secure Remote Access client
    • Await for ScanDB to be finished before launching installation/uninstallation of components
    • RTDB Project installation improvements
    • Drop support for 32-bit Windows operating systems
  • UI SDK
    • Navigator Widget now supports NLS language strings
    • Possibility to edit Navigation button's style
    • Fix design of (Dashboard) Save Copy As dialog
    • Support applying specified format to timestamp values
    • Show/hide variable/equipment property names in View process displays
    • Legend widget now supports drag and drop and data context
    • Legend Items Multi-Edit
    • Datalist Copy and Paste functionality in Edit mode
    • Flipped mode removed from Time Series List
    • Select All in Datalist (and Time Series List)
    • Implement using Vtring cPropertyBridge Format property
    • Widget level control for enabling Configure option in the context menu
    • Editable QuickMenu in View Applications
    • Improved Export Dialog of the Datalist
    • Multiline functionality in the cCurrentValueDisplay
    • Possible to rotate default Icon into Symbol widget
    • Preformatted text support in Label
    • Scale the font size of dynamic controls in metafiles based on the zoom level in the process layout
  • Hierarchical Systems
    • EventForwarder will now exit if it detects that server has been upgraded
  • Notification Service
    • Use SimpleConfig to set TraceLevel for NotificationService
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients and other APIs
    • Optimize usage of logging and formatting values
    • Warn user if trying to subscribe to unhistorized equipment property
    • VtrinLib ODBC Driver column name options
  • Engineering tools
    • Setting up EngineeringUI to be installed as a separate component
    • Update Engineering UI Templates to Use Display Inheritance
    • Praox workaround for Oracle

Released in June 2025

  • History and core RTDB:
    • ZStandard support to VtrinLib/Vtrin-NetServer
    • AMIN/AMAX filters
    • New function: GetLongUnit() function for ABB.Vtrin.cUnitConv
    • RTDBDriver's maximum post process set / mask skip can now be configured via SimpleConfig
    • RTDBDriver query optimizer now allows handling more properties with reference target on a lower level
    • New cpmPlusLetEncrypt package for package installers
    • Memory map overlap optimizations
    • New STRIP/STRIPI filters in VtrinLib
    • Docker containers now run with restricted user account
    • RTDB_ServiceManager -initonly agrument
    • EquipmentSubscriptions and linked properties tolerate now different units if they actually mean the same
    • VtrinLib deflate compression is now 10% faster than before
    • String uppercase optimized in CSCommon library
    • RTDB_ServiceManager -list to show all services
    • Handling of empty component folders in ComponentInstaller
    • ComponentInstaller directory iterator reorganization
    • AlarmLog core events reduced
    • RTDB_ServiceManager services name matching for -stop, -start, -restart
    • SQLServerInit.sql now included to legacy installation kit
  • UI SDK
    • Dashboard Grid Widget (AHL-1290)
    • Color rules for column charts (AHL-826)
    • Make it possible to open any link from navigation tree
    • Status and date settings in current value dialog
    • Complete text is not visible in Tab mode of Navigation tree widget
    • View single dashboard mode (AHL-1007)
    • View ES Module loader
    • Improvements to Navigation Tabs
    • Restore zoom when entering design mode while zooming in process layout
    • The status of the value shown in Vtrin's CurrentValueDisplay is now available as a property
    • Navigation (Breadcrumb) trail for navigation widget
    • Enable adding a shortcut key for a tree item
    • View dashboard printing overhaul
    • Improvements to Navigation Tree widget
    • Prevent [404 Not Found] errors when hosting the application (AHL-1255)
    • Support for a custom title in the toolbar area in Vtrin
    • Support for configuring the ABB logo in Vtrin
  • Calculation tools
    • Setting up CalcEngine to be installed as a separate component
    • Update for CalcEngine packager JSONs
    • Roslyn WebAssembly base calc editor autocompletion
  • Hierarchical Systems
    • Maximum http request size is now configurable
    • Fix to Vtrin Remote Access client chromium based browser start
    • Vtrin-NetSync : MQTT : Model On Demand
  • Notification service
    • Email and WhatsApp Plugins for Notification Service are deployed to Vtrin-NotificationServicePlugins folder
    • New Design for Notifications and Confirmation dialogs In View (Common UX)
    • NotificationService can run in redundany configuration
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients, other APIs
    • VtrinLib ODBC Driver product version number uniformed
    • Handling of OPCEventXML attributes with ids >=9 && =19 has been changed to match 5.2
    • Options and Filter for Data Access Event in OPC UA Client V3
    • Improve and validate UA server 2 security checks
    • UDP support to CTS
    • OData expression processing has been improved
    • Upgrade UnifiedAutomation SDK to 4.1.0
  • Engineering tools
    • ENG UI navigation menu updates second phase
    • ENG UI main navigation update
    • Possibility to bring all device properties to the trend display
    • VtrinCmd –removejson

Released in March 2025

  • History and core RTDB:
    • Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm into RTDB as a Filter
    • Updated Chinese language support
    • Improving documentation for ABB.Vtrin.UnitConv
    • Package Installer: installation/uninstallation executables to set current working directories
    • Processes removal functionality to VtrinCmd
    • VtrinLib query parsing now support ASC
    • CSCommon and VtrinLib time zone databases updated
  • UI SDK
    • Ability to change position of the chart item ruler
    • Support for vertical text and text rotation in View. Label (and Value) widgets
    • Browser Driver Manager for Dashboard Archiving
    • Navigation Tree - Tile Mode style update
  • Calculation tools
    • RTDB_CalcScheduler - optimized CPU usage when idling and clean up console/trace output
  • Hierarchical Systems
    • Vtrin-NetSync:MQTT:Limitation for message size
  • Notification service
    • Autogenerate NotificationTrigger configuration string
    • AzureWhatsapp plugin
    • Update email plugin to accommodate for Microsoft modern authentication
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients, other APIs
    • OPC/EquipmentEvent properties are now created as nullable by default
    • Technology preview of new GenLink for interfacing with various data sources
    • RTDB_EcModbusMaster component status for subserver being offline

Released in January 2025

  • History and core RTDB:
    • Vtrin Remote access service provider
    • Database table flush to disk performance has been improved
    • CALC/CALCI/WHEN filter data type support improvements
    • Stop RTDB can now list the hanging processes
    • A new function to compare metric units
    • VtrinLib now gets interface DLLs also from current directory
  • UI SDK
    • Gantt Ruler support
    • Datalist columns to work as navigation links
    • Option to change title font style in Formatted Datalist
    • It is now possible to use location-tag in web/mia.config files for directories
    • Configurable Default Theme for View Applications
    • Detect operating system theme in View (Light/Dark)
    • New implementation for the Font Properties dialog
    • Possibility to open duplicate View tab from the context menu
    • Vtrin's CurrentValue control now supports vertical and angled text
  • Calculation tools
    • Configurable top search box
  • Notification service
    • New service with email plugin is now ready for use
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients, other APIs
    • Improved diagnostics to RTDB_OpcUaClient
    • Upgrade UnifiedAutomation SDK to 4.0.3
    • Improved diagnostics for RTDB_EcModbusMaster Tag and DataAccessSources configuration

Released in November 2024

  • History and core RTDB:
    • Support for Debian Buster has ended
    • New package installer that enables package management also in Windows
  • UI SDK
    • Protection for private members to ensure better backward compatibility
    • Installation to meet the new cyber security requirements
    • Support for switching from rubber layout to block layout in editor
    • Search functionality to formatted datalist
  • Calculation tools
    • Recalculation activation to CalcCatalog
  • Notification service (Preview)
    • New service to define notification triggers for database events and subscribe notifications

Released in August 2024- This is a LTS version 5.3 (24.06)

  • History and core RTDB
    • OPCEventAttribute -class behavior reverted to that of version 5.2 (new applications don't need, because all attributes are available from OPCEvent class)
    • Vtrin libraries or executables are no longer having a strong name
    • JSON serialization optimizations
    • WebSocket compression can now be turned off via URL parameter
    • Performance and fault tolerance improvements to StreamHistory decompression
  • UI SDK
    • NLS support to Datalist's new column config dialog
    • Option to have rounded corners in Widget containers
    • Serialized selected row in datalist for printing
    • Enumeration color support
    • Dashboard Context handling to fire only one Context event per Target widget
  • Calculation tools
    • Loading icon in Calc UI taskcard when its process is being relaunched
    • Process grouped taskcard in CalcCatalog
    • PropertyName selection editing on CalcEngine
  • Engineering UI
    • Update to Database tables and Service Performance displays
  • Hierarchical systems
    • Netsync - MQTT: Additional Assemblies for Custom Formatter
    • Netsync - MQTT: Certificate handling
    • Receive rules - Support for setting Variable Path
    • Receive rules - Support to direct incoming events to chosen class
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients
    • RTDB_EcOpcClient - possible to provide numerical namespace index

Released in June 2024

  • History and core RTDB
    • GROUP BY fetch for formatted objects
    • Unicode support for UIClasssInfo VisibilityRequiements/EditMasking
    • Mo to C++17 standard
    • Vtrin filter data type support extended
    • RTDB Core ODBC - stored procedure DataProductionBarrier
  • UI SDK
    • Possibility to change side bar size
    • Support GROUP BY queries in Datalist
    • Show full process path in tooltip
    • Option to define minimum size for a Dashboard
    • Fixed grid mode in Dashboard Grid widget
    • Grouping support for Stacked Columns in Chart
  • Calculation tools
    • CalcDebugger - Client based debugging of calculations
  • Engineering UI
    • "Send to" trend for Active Alarms
    • Access Control List - dashboard
  • Hierarchical systems
    • Netsync - example MQTT message formatter
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients
    • OPC UA upgrade to UnifiedAutomation SDK 4.0.0
    • RTDB_EcOpcClient QCS link roll start and endtime to support OPC UA Datetime

Released in May 2024

  • History and core RTDB:
    • Client specified time zones
    • Reverse proxy support
    • Lock free flushing for memory mapped files and tens of other performance enhancements
  • UI SDK
    • Dashboard Grid - dynamically populated flex grid
    • Support for dashboard context as url parameters
  • Calculation tools
    • More clarity to calculation period definition and other parameters with tens of small enhancements
  • Hierarchical systems
    • MQTT extension to Netsync; data feed to MQTT with minimum engineering

Released in February 2024

  • History and core RTDB:
    • Netcore -build upgrade from .NET6 to .NET8
    • HA configurations with mixed Windows and Linux nodes
    • New features to JSON serializer
  • UI SDK:
    • Updated icons for View standard widgets
    • Multiple small new features and bug fixes
  • Engineering UI:
    • Maintenance dialog for configuring history tables
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients:
    • Upgrade to Unified Automation OPC UA SDK 3.4.1
    • RTDB_OpcUaServer support for accessing aggregate histories of equipment properties

Released in December 2023

  • History and core RTDB:
    • CALC/CALCI filters support now nextx/netxy properties
    • Several hardening improvements
  • UI SDK:
    • Support URL parameters in View dashboard context mappers
    • Dashboard Grid widget
    • Vtrin's cWebBrowser Standard Form is updated to use Edge based browser
  • Hiearchical systems:
    • Preview of MQTT publisher to Netsync
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients:
    • RTDB_EcOpcClient option to produce variable specific HistoryUpdateLog entries to support automatic backfill in hierarchical systems implemented with Netsync

Released in November 2023

  • History and core RTDB:
    • VtrinLib - multiple fixes and improvements to connection handling, cache functionality, backward compatibility, mask handling, graph filter, logging in Linux, and history values and status handling
    • Fix to port forwarding tunnel from Main to DCN
  • UI SDK:
    • Multiple new time editing options in Time Bar
    • Data entry validations
    • Chart background grid to support non-time series X scale
    • Time series list print mode and improvements to data list printing
  • Calculation tools:
    • Multiple fixes to White listing, recalculation, error messages, batch calculation, and editor usability
    • C# calculation API - fixes to handle HSHS and HSLIS bits, and CalcVariable iterator
  • Configuration and bulk load tools:
    • Multiple fixes to Engineering UI dashboards
  • APIs and data acquisition
    • RTDB_EcQWERP - deletion support
    • RTDB_EcPerfMon - fix to integer value handling
    • RTDB_OPCUAServer2 - support for ReadProcessed
    • RTDB_EcIec - support for multiple IEC port settings
    • RTDB_OPCHdaServer - fix to quality handling in writing
    • OData - fix to current value status handling in writing

Released in September 2023

  • History and core RTDB:
    • ACL definitions event handling and authorization rule handling improved
    • System monitoring service setup in Linux and Docker fixed, and Services proper shutdown in Linux fixed
    • CVMC server CPU consumption in history recollection fixed
    • VtrinLib IsRobot call, VtrinShared change processing, Vtrin server "autostart" in service install, Core event handling after Cache invalidation, and BeginUpdate for an instance of Non-Cacheable class acquired via GetInstanceByName call fixed
  • UI SDK:
    • Stacked Bar Chart
    • NLS and dialog support for Formatted Data List
    • Several style changes and numerous bug fixes
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients:
    • Support for Debian Bookworm / OPC UA C++ SDK updated to 1.8 / OpenSSL 3.0

Released in August 2023

  • History and core RTDB:
    • Non-existing property values are now supported e.g. in event logs
    • Property reference unit checking fixed
    • Automatic SyncHalting of the ScanStreamHistory tool fixed
    • Modbus master improvements
    • History maintenance logging (HistoryUpdateLog) now implementd in the RTDB driver
    • Multiple conflicting masks for same property - now handled properly in driver
    • First modify event for a new instance lost sometimes - now fixed
  • UI SDK:
    • Support for enumeration images for referenced properties
    • Report archive bug fixes
    • XLXS export support in gateway installation
    • Several small enhancements to Engineering UI dashboards
    • Several small enhancements to style, font, color, and dark mode handling
    • Improvements to list editing and OK, cancel, apply buttons in dialogs
    • Timebar support for formatted datalist
    • Referencing widget properties in sub-dashboard fixed
    • Definitions in UI permissions could prevent loggig - fixed
    • A cookie could be left dangling if authentication method was changed - fixed
  • Calculation tools:
    • Several usability enhancements to editor
    • Support for .NET standard dll
  • Hierarchical systems and gateways:
    • Backfill was not properly updated if committing failed on database level - fixed
    • Long text added to Input and Output in Equipment Publications
    • RTDB_EventForwarder now uses standard logging
  • OPC (UA) Servers and Clients:
    • RTDB_OpcHDAServer speed up to writing to StreamHistory
    • Tool to measure OPC HDA Server write speed
    • OPCUAServer2 now supports backfill to Equipment properties
  • Bulk load tools:
    • ExcelPopulateEquipment: Native Formats Data Type in Exported Excel
    • Excel Populate: support to create Tags of array data type

Released in June 2023

  • Back-end services:
    • Runtime generated code for VtrinLib classes can now be unloaded
    • Better automation for database upgrade in Linux
    • Security whitelisting to calculation tool
    • Equipment receive rules to allow altering incoming data in the target node of hierarchical system
    • Vtrin-NetServer: Access Control To Different Endpoints
    • Option for improved packed transfer scheduler for RTDB_EcModbusMaster
    • RTDB_CVMCServer ring load diagnostic improvement
  • UI SDK:
    • Support for non-time series data in Chart
    • Likex wildcard syntax now a documented feature in datalist filter
    • More fonts
    • Top Menu style update
    • Show string values correctly in Gantt Chart items and tooltip
    • Dashboard inheritance
    • Property display format can now be set via UIClassInfo
    • App.config option for hiding the dashboard tab/window menu

Released in May 2023

  • Measurement range checking to current value handling
  • Vtrin Server's GetStandardValues now includes "Flags" info
  • Vtrin Server call handling performance has been improved
  • NetSync to store timestamp updates to equipment model instead of uiproperties
  • OPC UA: New NodeId syntax for variables, tags and equipment properties
  • OPC HDA: Speeding up HDA server write
  • UI SDK:
    • Show string values correctly in Chart Gantt items and tooltip
    • Support "Zero item" for giving default history tables for new items
    • Single Property Editor -> Date Time - Select Display format
    • Extend scripting capabilities to easily create and update class instances
    • Correctly set readonly dimension properties for block and column
    • Reorder block and column from property grid
    • Tab styles and behavior
    • Separate font style for unit
    • Font weights and size according to EMS Figma specs
    • Option to show value bar in numeric column
    • Fix column resizing after SimpleGrid creation
    • More fonts to view
    • View select widget selects last item
    • Select widget finnish alphabet
    • Serialized dashboard for printing functionality
    • Serialized dashboard for archiving functionality
    • Prevent moving widget with right mouse button in dashboard editor
    • Language support problem with uistrings in legend
    • Access Value font color property with script
    • Fix configuration visibility logic to allow using DB Instance widget when setting current value
    • Make all data properties visible in dialog configuration

Released in April 2023

  • Virtual attributes in alarms to enrich alarm information
  • Support to use network names in HA configuration to enable HA configurations in Kubernetes
  • UI SDK: Datalist to handle ordered lists and reordering items to support production planning
  • UI SDK: Multiline support for text input
  • UI SDK: Datalist to support copy/duplicate row
  • UI SDK: New time span editor
  • UI SDK: Navigation button to listen context
  • UI SDK: Custom dialog support

Released in February 2023

  • Linux support for C# calculation SDK
  • Linux security; all software running on limited user account
  • Internal events and alarms can be stored into OPCEventLog
  • VtrinLib filters: Array support to most of the filters
  • VtrinLib filters: AMEDIAN filter now supports giving percentile as argument just like MEDIAN filter
  • VtrinLib filters: SORT as new filter
  • UI SDK: Multiple time bars and time offset support in chart and time series list
  • UI SDK: Formatted data list
  • UI SDK: Grouped bar chart
  • UI SDK: Ruler to support non time scale on X-axis
  • UI SDK: X-Y scatter support in chart
  • UI SDK: Block layout engine
  • Bulk load tool with several new functionalities to handle equipment models and instances

Released in September 2022

  • Improved redundancy support for data transfer in hierarchical systems (Netsync)
  • Generic OAuth2 support for user authentication
  • UI SDK: DataList columns scaling according to font size, ruler auto/manual/common scaling selection
  • UI SDK: forecast support in chart, X-Y scatter
  • UI SDK: TimeSeriesList aggregate rows
  • Blob storage improvements and download support in UI
  • OPCEvent /EventForwarder - added support to key-value storage

Released in March 2022

  • OPC UA Server: better history tables support, new SDK version, proxy updates in installation, updated OpenSSL
  • OPC UA Client: support for browse path as item name, more session connection options, picking selected element from array
  • SKIP filter to support 2-dimentional reporting
  • Time zone databases updated
  • UI SDK: Export to Excel improved with several options, time series list improved, block layout
  • OData: Support for fetching multiple items in a single call
  • Calc tool: Better diagnostics and error windows in editor, import calculations in JSON
  • .NET 6.0 support
  • ODBC SDK updated to new version
  • Property sharing between equipment and other class instances
  • Support for Debian Bullseye

Released in October 2021

  • Input stream journal to ensure that no input values are lost in case of server node crash
  • OData: Write support for class data
  • Calculations: Batch calculation support
  • Calculations: Improved diagnostics
  • OPC UA Server (Linux): History maintenance and ACL support
  • UI SDK: Forecast presentation in chart
  • UI SDK: Improved history maintenance list

Released in June 2021

  • Core ODBC for ARM architecture computers to support RTDB installation and upgrades
  • Handling of vendor specific attributes in classic OPC AE client
  • Calculation tool: Export-import of calculations to support easy deployment
  • Calculation tool: Support for external libraries
  • OPC UA: client certificate based authentication
  • OPC UA: Alarm acknowledgement from UI (EquipmentEventLog or OPCEventLog) through OPC UA Client down to 3rd party OPC UA server
  • Alarm storage for Edgenius warm storage use case

Released in April 2021

  • UI SDK: Time series list widget
  • UI SDK: History maintenance widget
  • UI SDK: Event markers in trend chart
  • Engineering UI: Re-branding support
  • OPC UA: UA SDK and OpenSSL updates
  • Source of data -attribute in hierarchical systems to tell users where the data is originated

Released in January 2021

  • Secure tunnel between DCN and main nodes based on outbound only connections
  • Equipment model to show origin of the property data in each level of system topology
  • Excel bulk load tool - multiple usability improvements
  • Linux service management enhancements
  • Calculation tool - separation of calculation period and scheduling interval

Released in September 2020

  • New calculation engineering tool and execution engine - Calc Engine
  • OPC UA Server for Linux as a preview for product development - not for production

Released in June 2020

  • Bulk load tool for configuring equipment models and instances
  • Alarming support for equipment properties with event engineering tool
  • Equipment property instance specific configuration
  • Multiple browse hierarchies to equipment instances
  • Equipment model based write back support in networked systems and all the way down to OPC UA data source

Released in March 2020

  • New documentation platform (this)
  • Improved support for Equipment model based calculation

Released in December 2019

  • .NET Core version
  • Modbus Master for Linux
  • ABB Ability™ Edge History
  • Improved Diagnostic Logs

Released in September 2019

  • Linux package manager
  • Docker container deliverables
  • Load balancer

Environment

Operating system

  • Windows Server 2025, 2022, or 2019 2020 Q3 (5.3_20.09) was the last version that supported Windows 2008 R2 operating system or 32-bit Windows (Windows 7, 8, or 10)

  • Windows 11/10 and respective Windows Embedded Systems can be used for development or other controlled use cases

  • MS .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer (.NET 6.0 libraries available)

  • Debian Linux 10 (Buster) 11 (Bullseye)

  • MS .NET 6.0

  • Linux support, see Installation on Linux

  • Docker installation, see Installation on Docker

Development and engineering tool environment

  • MS Visual Studio 2022 for application development with programming
  • Starting from 2020 Q4, the C++ programs and libraries will be built by using the v142 toolkit (the default toolkit of Visual Studio 2019)
  • MS Office Excel 2016 or newer, if bulk load tool is used

System sizing

CPU:

  • Multicore CPUs are recommended, minimum 2
  • Performance cannot me guaranteed in NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) systems -> avoid configurations with multiple physical CPUs or CPUs that otherwise utilize NUMA (eg. some Intel XEON models, AMD Epyc models and AMD Threadripper models)
  • ARMv7 32bit, ARMv8 64bit (aarch64), Intel x86, Intel x64

RAM:

  • Windows: Minimum 4 GB, recommended 32+ GB
  • Linux: Minimum 1 GB, recommended 32+ GB

Disks:

  • high performance redundant disk systems
  • recommended to use SSD whenever applicable
  • separate disks for OS, database, and online backup
  • database disk has to be formatted to 64KB block size

Network: Separate dedicated networks are recommended to use for:

  • data acquisition from devices and control systems
  • communication between DCN and main history nodes
  • users and system/application interfaces above main history
  • redundancy between two history nodes (DCN or main) - mandatory

Both physical and virtualized servers can be used.

Compatibility

Applications and systems implemented with previous released versions can be upgraded to the latest release.

ABB Ability™ History data collector nodes of version 5.0-1 and 5.2 are tested to be compatible with the latest version ABB Ability™ History main node.

Known Issues

There are currently 1 known high severity issues that affect certain usage scenarios. They should be considered when building a solution:

  1. System deployed behind an Azure load balancer causes connection breaks and missing data. This affects at least Equipment API via MiaClient which is used by NetSync. This same behaviour is not seen within local network.
    • 37866: [Netsync] Equipment history backfill not happening in the cloud machines after network disturbance in L3 machine

Updated 3 months ago