Performing platform administration

Prerequisites:

The Edge 10 device is already commissioned using the Commissioning Wizard.

Using Workbench, open a platform connection to the Edge device. Use the platform credentials you specified when creating a platform user while commissioning the device.
In the Edge device platform’s Nav Container View, double-click Platform Administration.
In the Platform Administration view, click any of the following to review or make changes:
- View Details — A platform summary that you can copy to the Windows clipboard.
- User Accounts — A platform daemon authentication dialog to add, delete, or manage platform users (initially performed as a step in the Commissioning Wizard).
- System Passphrase — A dialog to set or change the system passphrase used to encrypt sensitive information on the platform’s filesystem.
- Change TLS Settings — A dialog to specify platform SSL settings, including enabling/disabling, port, PKI certificate to authenticate by, and secure protocol to use. Details are beyond the scope of this document. For an overview, see “Change SSL (TLS) Settings” in the Niagara Platform Guide. For complete information, refer to the Niagara Station Security Guide.
- Change Date / Time — A dialog to change the device’s current date, time, and time zone (initially performed as a step in commissioning wizard).
- Advanced Options — A dialog to enable or disable the following advanced platform options
  
  SFTP / SSH Enabled — A dialog to enable/disable SFTP and SSH access to the device, or change the default port number that these protocols use/share.
  
  Daemon Debug Enabled — Temporarily enable the browser based daemon debugging tools. This is automatically turned off the next time the system boots.
  
  USB Backup Enabled — Enable or disable the USB Backup port on the device’s enclosure.
- Change Output Settings — A dialog to change the log level of different processes that can appear in the platform daemon output
- View Daemon Debug — A window in which you can observe debug messages from platform daemon processes in real time. Also includes ability to pause or load.
- View System Log — A window for viewing system log(s) for the platform.
- Configure Runtime Profiles — A dialog to change the types of runtime profiles for software modules installed on the device (initially performed in Commissioning Wizard).
- Configure NRE Memory — A dialog to configure the memory allocation sizes of this platform’s Niagara Runtime Environment.
- Backup — Make a complete backup of all configuration on the connected host platform, including all station files, plus other Niagara configuration (typically unnecessary for any Edge device just started up).
- Commissioning — Another way to re-launch the Commissioning Wizard, as previously used in the initial commissioning of the device.
- Reboot — A method to reboot the Edge 10 platform, which restarts all software including the OS and JVM, then the platform daemon, then if so configured in the Application Director (Station Director), the installed station. If you click this, a confirmation dialog appears.
  If you reboot, your platform connection is lost, and it is typically a few minutes until you can reconnect to this Edge device.

Performing platform administration

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