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 / SmartServer Pi 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 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 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
- 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
- SmartServer Pi Troubleshooting (Custom Hardware)
- Determining SmartServer Software Version Compatibility