Typical workflow for installing the engineered station at the job site

This section shows the typical workflow for installing the engineered station at an actual job site:

 

Prerequisites:

Transferring the station to the remote JACE

This procedure gives the basic step for transferring the station (that was engineered off-site) to the JACE.

Installing the vendor-specific files on the JACE

This procedure gives the basic step for installing the vendor-specific files in the Sedona environment on the JACE using the Sedona Environment Manager platform tool.

Performing device discovery, match, and associate

This procedure describes performing device discovery, matching the physical device to the device in the station database, and associating the appropriate app which adds the associated app to the JACE station file space.

NoteDevice discovery will only work when the correct type of Sedona network has been selected. For Ethernet LAN devices make sure to select 'SedonaNetwork' when adding a network to your Niagara station. Regarding Jennic-based (wireless) devices, see Limitations engineering Jen6Lp networks using the simulator

  1. Power up the physical Sedona device.

  2. In Workbench, open the Sedona Device Manager and click Discover to detect the physical device and display the device in Discovered pane.

  3. Select the discovered device and click Match to match the device to the device in station database.

  4. Select the discovered device in the Discover pane and the added device in the Database pane, then click Associate. A File Chooser window displays.

  5. In the File Chooser, navigate to the offline app file in !sedona/store/apps and click Open. This step adds the indicated app file to the JACE station file space, as shown below, using a file system hierarchy that includes the device’s name. This facilitates retrieving the app file later for point discovery, provisioning with app put, etc.

    Figure 34. Associating the app file adds associated device to station file space


    Associating the app file adds associated device to station file space


Pushing the offline app down to a physical device

This procedure describes using the a Put operation in the Application Manager provisioning tool to copy the associated app file from the JACE file space to the physical device.

  1. Expand the Sedona Tools node under the device in the station.

  2. Double-click the Application Manager provisioning tool

    NoteThe app file copied to each device must be associated with that particular device.

    For complete details on provisioning the device, refer to “Put an application on a device” in the Sedona Framework TXS Tools Guide

  3. Click Put and Next, and select the appropriate associated app to install on the device.

  4. Click Finish to push the selected app down to the physical device.

Viewing points to confirm behavior

The procedure gives the basic step to confirm app logic is working as intended.