What is a potential reason for a Data Source to have an 'Idle' status?

Having a Data Source show an 'Idle' status can indicate that no tags are configured yet. This means that the data source has been set up but is not actively collecting or processing data because there are no defined points of interest or metrics to monitor. In the context of a data historian, tags represent specific variables or data points; without any tags, the system has no data to work with, leading to this idle state.

Even when the necessary communication settings, server health, and network conditions might be optimal, the absence of configured tags simply means the system has nothing to log or interact with. Therefore, this results in the Data Source being in an idle state until tags are assigned and properly set for data collection.