SmartServer User's Guide

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 / SmartConnect 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 IoT, 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)