Setting up the Station Manager to display index status

Global system indexing can be used to collect entity information from the NiagaraStations under the Supervisor station’s NiagaraNetwork, which it saves in the Supervisor’s system database. This makes it possible to query an entire system. This procedure sets up the columns of the Station Manager to report on the progress of subordinate station indexing.

You have set up the SystemDbService and SystemIndexService under the Services folder in the Nav tree. Virtuals are enabled and configured for user permissions. You have successfully started to execute the global system indexer against subordinate stations under your NiagaraNetwork.
To learn more about setting up indexing itself, refer to the Niagara System Database and System Indexing Guide.
  1. To display system index progress information for subordinate stations, expand Config > Drivers and double-click the NiagaraNetwork.
    The Station Manager view opens.
  2. Click the icon that expands the columns list ().
    As of Niagara 4.13, to view the indexing progress of the downstream reachable stations, you can select Reachable Stations Global Index State from the list of optional columns.
    This exposes a list of additional columns you can display.

  3. In the drop-down list, select the system indexing progress columns you wish to display in the Station Manager.
    The additional columns appear in the view.

  4. To sort the displayed records by indexed column, click the column header.
    For example, you could list the collected records by when System Indexing last occurred and when it last occurred successfully or unsuccessfully in each station.
  5. To batch edit (gang edit) more than one station at a time, select the stations to edit and click Edit.
    The edit window opens.

    The screen capture shows simultaneously editing two properties for two selected stations:

    • Accepts Global Index Requests is set to true to include the stations in the global system indexing operation.

    • Receive Exported Index From Remote Station is set to false to not allow unwanted export (push) to be accepted also for security reasons.

Note: The System Database runs only on Supervisor platforms, not on controller platforms.