Upon accessing the Aurora Platform the application will check the internet browser being used and will display a warning message if the browser used is unsupported.  The official supported web browser for the Aurora Platform is Internet Explorer 10 and newer.

The Comm Status View has been updated so that the User is able to see the device, entity and tag associations.

How to view device and entity comm statuses:

1. Already logged in at the Site level, click on the Operations menu option.
   
2. Select Comm status and the application will display the Comm Status screen with the device comms by Name, Type, IP Address, Comm Status, and Data Quality.  
   
3. To view the Entity Comms by device, click on the View Entities button on the same row as the device.  The application displays the entity comms for the device by Name, Location, Comm Status, and Data Quality.  
   
4. To view the Entity Details, click on the Entity Details button on the same row as the equipment and the application displays the Entity Details screen.  
   
5. To view the Entity tags, click on the Grid icon in the upper right-hand corner and the application displays the entity's tag names and values.  
   

Admin

Site Config

Entity Config

To improve the performance of trending, reporting and other views the Seconds Persistence can be changed to 0.  This will remove the need to store and process any unnecessary data.  This will be set to 0 by default and can be changed by customer request.  This does not impact event (testing and emergency) data that is stored for compliance and reporting.

To help out with troubleshooting offline devices we have added the device's location to the alarm notifications.  When the device is associated with entities in a singular location then the application will provide a location by Site, Building, Floor and/or Room.  If the device is associated with entities in multiple locations then the application will display Serving Multiple.  When an offline device serves one entity then the application will display the entity as a hyperlink that will take you to the entity details.

The device offline alarm shown below includes multiple entities in the same building, floor, and room.

The device offline alarm shown below includes multiple entities in the same building and floor but in different rooms.

The device offline alarm shown below includes multiple entities in a different building, floor, and room.

To help with troubleshooting we have replaced 0.00 data readings in the live views with ??? to indicate when there is a bad data reading.  Bad data reading could be any of the following. 

Kepware data quality = bad

• the device is offline, then all tags receive bad quality data
  
• a tag with a formula field and the formula syntax is bad
  
• a tag with a formula that is referencing a tag that has bad quality data
  
• invalid i/o address at the tag level 
  

Gateway data quality = bad

• the device is offline, then all tags receive bad quality data
  
• a tag with a formula field and the formula syntax is bad
  
• for an entity with multiple gims and 1 gim goes offline then bad quality just for that gim 
  
• invalid
  

Live View

A scroll bar was added to the Live View menu list to accommodate a long list of Live Views.

In design mode, the tags listed in the Inputs and Values tabs are now listed in alpha order.

Improvements have been made to Trending so that the data results render faster, it provides more ways to receive the data and it provides only the trending options appropriate for the time duration and tags selected.

All of the trending selection criteria are now visible on the trending screen.  Prior to this release, you had to click on the cogwheel icon to see the chart type, data interval, and roll-up options.

The Data interval options are dynamically available based on the server's data persistence configuration and the trending duration entered. When the trending duration is entered then the application looks up the server persistence configuration and determines what data intervals can be displayed. When the user attempts to trend on data that is outside of the data persistence window then a warning message is displayed "WARNING - the data retention policy does not have data available for the time frame and interval selected."

Tag selections are now viewable by location (site, building, floor, room) prior to this release the tags were shown by the system.  Not all tags are associated with a system so it caused a little bit of confusion.

When 10 or fewer tags are selected there are four chart types available:

• Line Chart - displays the data in a line chart
  
• Data Grid - displays the data in a grid format
  
• Download - downloads the data results to a csv file with the option to open or save to location.
  
• Export To Email - creates a csv file and emails the file to the requested recipients
  
• Export To File - saves a csv file to a file location on the Blue Pillar server
  

When there are 11 or more tags selected there are two output types available:

• Export to Email - emails a csv file to the recipient of your choice 
  
• Export to File - saves a csv file to a file location on the Blue Pillar server
  

IMPORTANT:  the export to file is mapped to the Blue Pillar Server.  Access to the Blue Pillar server files may only be available through your IT Department.