About the NiagaraNetwork

By default, every station has a NiagaraNetwork driver under its Drivers container. The NiagaraNetwork in the Supervisor station models data that originates from the other remote stations in the network.
Figure 5.   The NiagaraNetwork in the Workbench Nav tree
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While theNiagaraNetwork uses the same driver architecture as other drivers, a NiagaraNetwork differs from them in that:

  • All proxy points (BooleanPoint, EnumPoint, NumericPoint, or String Point) under a station are read-only.
  • Connections between stations occur as client and server sessions using the Fox/Foxs protocol. The requesting station is the client, and target (responding) station is the server. A Workbench connection to a station operates identically, where Workbench is the client, and the station is server. Client authentication (performed by the server) is required in all Fox/Foxs connections.