Manifest Manager view

NoteStarting in Sedona TXS-1.2, the importance of any Sedona network’s Manifest Manager has diminished in favor of using the Sedona Environment Manager platform view. This permits configuration of kit files and platform archive files, in addition to manifest files. However, in some cases the Manifest Manager view on a Sedona network may still be useful (e.g. if a platform connection to the station’s host is unavailable). For details on the Sedona Environment Manager, see Sedona environment management.

Figure 20. Manifest Manager is an available view on the SedonaNetwork


Manifest Manager is an available view on the SedonaNetwork

As shown in Figure 20, the Manifest Manager is an available view on a SedonaNetwork—note it is the same view that is available on a SedonaJen6lpNetwork.

You can use this view to copy Sedona kit manifest files (“manifests”) from your Workbench host (Local Database) to the JACE hosting the station (Station Database). In this case you copy manifests from the left side to the right side. The station running any Sedona Framework network needs direct access to all kit manifest files for any networked device, to support online Sedona proxy point discovery and proxy point updates. For a related quick start procedure in this document, see Run the Manifest Manager to ensure kit manifests are loaded.

However, this view also works “bi-directionally”. That is, you can use it to copy manifests from the JACE (or Supervisor running the SedonaNetwork) to your Workbench computer, copying from right to left. This may be useful if you access the station using a different Workbench host than was used to engineer the station. Note that Workbench requires direct access to the manifests for all kits in a Sedona Framework device when making a Sox connection to it (typically, a Sox tunneling connection)—otherwise, the connection will fail with an exception (exception error “details” usually list the missing manifest file or files).

NoteNiagara Workbench with Sedona Framework TXS also provides a similar “upper level” Sedona Manifest Manager view, launched from the menu bar: Tools->Sedona Manifest Manager. In that view, the left pane is “Web Database” (source, read-only), while the right (target) pane is your Workbench computer. Providing that you have Internet connectivity, this gives access to manifest files available at sedonadev.org.

Find complete details about using the Manifest Manager in the Sedona Framework Manifest Manager - Engineering Notes document.