Replicating users and user configuration properties in
all network stations is more efficient than manually setting up users
in each station. This procedure explains how to synchronize user properties
in the Supervisor station with users in a remote station.
You set up user prototypes and users in the UserService. You
are working in Workbench and are connected to a local Supervisor station.- Expand , double-click the NiagaraNetwork and click Discover.
A discovery job identifies all subordinate stations in
the network.
- Select all discovered stations and add them to the Supervisor station’s database by clicking Add.
The station automatically creates a set of NiagaraStations under the NiagaraNetwork, one for each discovered subordinate station.
- Expand each node in the Nav tree and
set at least Sync Out Enabled to true.
Synchronizing-out replicates user data from the
Supervisor station to each target station. You would enable
both
Sync In Enabled and
Sync Out Enabled in a subordinate
Supervisor station.
Each user device extension defaults
to a Sync Strategy of Prototype Required.
- To use the default prototype for synchronization instead
of a user prototype, open each Users node under
each NiagaraStation and change Sync
Strategy to Use Default Prototype.
- Right–click the NiagaraNetwork in your Supervisor station and click .
The User Sync Manager view opens.
- Select the NiagaraStations to synchronize
and click Sync.
The system accesses the values for user properties from
the user prototype names in the Supervisor station and replicates them to the remote station
users that have the same user prototype names. If a user does not
exist in a target remote station, the synchronization creates it.
- Expand each NiagaraStation under
the NiagaraNetwork in the Supervisor station and double-click Users.
- Confirm that synchronization succeeded by reviewing Last Sync Attempt and Last Sync Success properties.