SmartServer IoT is the industry’s first truly open, end-to-end, and extensible edge server that accelerates your system integration projects for industrial IoT applications. It enables you to monitor and control BACnet, LON, Modbus, and IoT devices, and interface those devices with local workstations and remote cloud services.
This section describes how to use the SmartServer for planning, provisioning, integrating, operating, maintaining, and diagnosing a site containing industrial IoT devices. See SmartServer IoT Getting Started for an introduction to key concepts for the SmartServer, and for instructions on how to initially set up a SmartServer (such as configuring the IP address and verifying the timezone and location), as well as how to manage licenses. For step-by-step videos on using the SmartServer, see SmartServer Training Videos. For a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the SmartServer's integrated Node-RED tool, see SmartServer IoT Node-RED Tutorial. The following topics describe how to use the SmartServer once you have it set up.
Site Planning
- Defining Users
- Defining and Using Contexts
- Collecting or Creating Device Definitions
- Modifying Datapoint Types
- Defining Datapoint Properties
- Defining Device Types
Site Provisioning
- Discovering, Defining, or Importing Devices
- Provisioning, Deprovisioning, and Replacing Devices
- Testing Devices and Managing Datapoints
Site Integration
- Creating Sequence of Operations
- Applying Contexts and Devices to Flows
- Setting up Schedules
- Setting up Alarm Email Notifications
- Setting up Datapoint Connections
- Creating User Interfaces
Site Operation
- Managing Alarm Notifications
- Managing the Calendar
- Managing Monitoring Events and Data Logs
- Viewing Data Trend Reports
- Using SmartServer Aliases
Site Maintenance
- Viewing SmartServer Status
- Viewing Device Status Reports
- Viewing Maintenance Reports
- Downloading Logs
- Managing Customer and User Accounts
- Updating or Re-imaging the SmartServer IoT
- Updating the Remote CMS
- Updating or Re-imaging the SmartServer Pi
- Backing Up, Restoring, and Cloning the SmartServer
- Managing the SmartServer SD Card
Site Diagnostics
- Using the UaExpert OPC UA Client
- Using the NodeUtil Node Utility for LON Devices
- Using the LonScanner Protocol Analyzer for LON Devices
SmartServer Troubleshooting
- Determining SmartServer Software Version Compatibility
- Using Console / SSH commands
- Power Line Repeating DCI Console
- Rebooting Your SmartServer IoT
- Resetting the SmartServer IoT Databases
- Resetting the SmartServer IoT to Factory Defaults
- Starting Modbus with Debug Level Tracing Enabled
- Clearing the Browser's Cache
- SmartServer Pi Troubleshooting (Custom Hardware)