Creating a prototype job

The benefit of creating a prototype job is that you can specify various provisioning steps against one or more stations in the NiagaraNetwork and save the set of steps as normal persisted components. You can duplicate and edit them as needed. Each NiagaraNetworkJobPrototype provides a default Niagara Network Prototype View for managing job steps. A prototype job is the recommended method for regular, scheduled backups of networked controllers.

1. Copy a NiagaraNetworkJobPrototype component from the provisioningNiagara palette into the Supervisor station.
   You may locate NiagaraNetworkJobPrototype component anywhere in the architecture of the station database. It does not need to be under the NiagaraNetwork.
2. To open its Niagara Network Prototype View, double-click the component.
   The Niagara Network Prototype View opens.
   
   
3. In the top pane, Provisioning steps to run, click add () or right-click in the Provisioning steps to run pane and click Add.
   The New Job Step window opens.
   
   
4. Select the job step, for example, Backup Stations and click OK.
5. To select the stations to regularly provision, do one of the following:
   • Drag the stations from the NiagaraNetwork in the Nav tree one by one into the bottom pane, Stations to include in the job.
   • Click add () or right-click in the Stations to include in the job and click Add.
   If you clicked to add stations, the Add Device window opens.
   
   
6. Choose the station(s) or, to select them all, click Check All and click OK.
   The system adds the job step and stations to the job builder.