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Features

For more information on features introduced in the latest releases, check Release 4.3, Release 4.2, and Release 4.1 sections.

System Architecture

• Multiprotocol vendor-agnostic framework. Direct support for many standard communication protocols (SNMP, Modbus, OPC, JMX, and more).
• Modular, scalable, and reliable architecture. New data processing and visualization modules may be installed into server core as plug-ins. Support for high-availability clustering.
• Hierarchical multi-user environment with role-based access control permissions.
• The special Device Normalization technology ensures generic flexible approach for controlling, configuring and monitoring different types of hardware devices.
• Robust communication protocol for data exchange between server, programmable controllers, and client applications.
• A secure GUI client is available, along with a legacy AJAX-based web client.

Device Management

• Automatic discovery and provisioning of devices.
• Remote configuration of devices and advanced synchronization allowing to perform delayed configuration even when devices are temporarily disconnected from the server.
• Real-time monitoring of device status and events.
• Flexible event filtering capabilities.
• Support for event acknowledgements by system operators, including e-mail acknowledgements.
• Customizable alerts supporting different types of notifications (sound, popup messages, e-mail, SMS etc.).
• Support for pending alerts and alert escalation.
• Alert-to-action bindings allow to execute corrective actions when alert is raised. Corrective actions may be controlled by operator or executed in non-interactive mode with pre-defined user input.
• Advanced reporting facility, automatic report generation from any viewed/edited data.
• Built-in report editor, report printing and exporting in different formats.
• Charting, support for a wide list of chart types, including dynamically updated charts.
• Integrated SQL-based query language for data mining and batch configuration updates.
• Trackers for monitoring mission-critical data. Every tracker has an unlimited number of user-defined states, indicated by color highlighting.
• Advanced job scheduler for periodic execution of any device-related or system actions.
• Grouping and group operations are available for different system objects (user accounts, alerts, event filters, queries etc.) and hardware devices.
• Advanced replication of configuration between any similar system objects and devices. Configuration may be copied even between devices that use different firmware versions.
• Common data tables store any custom data in a user defined format. System-wide or user’s personal common tables may contain master-copies of device settings that are used to configure multiple devices. Another use is associating common tables with devices and system objects to form their custom properties.
• Favourites allow access to commonly used actions.
• Auto-run facility to start actions automatically upon operator login.
• Interactive guides that greatly help new users to become familiar with basic system operations.

Development & Integration

• Widgets feature allow creating custom forms, interactive GUI components and complex Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI) to configure and monitor your devices. Integrated GUI Builder application to create your widgets from scratch in WYSIWYG mode.
• Widgets may be combined into a dashboard to provide quick and convenient access to system-critical parameters.
• Expression language for flexible alert triggering rules, event filtering, and other data processing. Interactive Expression Builder component is available.
• Support for server-side pure-Java scripts for the fine grained real-time server control and custom operations. Client-side scripts for driving widgets.
• Multi-level logging to console, text/XML files, windows event log, unix syslog, database, E-mail and other destinations.
• Multiple time zones support. Automatic time conversion in the case when server, users and devices are located in different time zones.
• Support of export and import of any system or device data to numerous formats, including XML, HTML, CSV, XLS, PDF, RTF etc.
• Embedded Web-service allows integration with third-party enterprise applications.
• Open-source Java and .NET API's are available for easy integration with the customer’s CRM, ERP and other legacy software.
• Flexible branding and personalization options, support for internationalization, localization and user-provided graphical and text resources.
• Java-based architecture, key system components work under most modern operating systems. Server component supports headless remote installation and administration.
• Compatible with most present-day database servers. An embedded database is bundled with the server to ensure fast deployment.
• Failover clustering for high availability.
• Distributed architecture for load balancing and multi-tier installations.
• Comprehensive manual with numerous examples and tutorials.
• Device Simulator. Virtual software-based device is available for testing and debugging purposes.