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Overview

The Dashboard is a view-only system health and status tool and an OPC tool.  The top portion displays specific information about the status, health and performance of the ACM server.  The lower portion displays data points for a given list of devices and/or ports as configured in an ACM view.  The Dashboard enables viewing of information commonly provided by a separate OPC client without having to leave the configuration client.

Server Information

The top row contains four server tags.

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The filter drop-down will save the grid layout and any filter applied automatically to the <Last Used> entry. To store different layouts, create new ones by selecting <Save Current Layout> and clicking the save button . It is possible to save over or update an existing layout by selecting that filter name and clicking the save button. Selecting the delete button  will remove the filter from the list.

Note: If the selected view has more than 30 items, only the first 30 items will be displayed in the grid.

Grid Options

  • Enabled Objects Only: When checked, only objects that are currently enabled will appear in the grid from the View Objects list.  
  • Display Custom Items Name: When checked, and if the item in the View Alias Group has an Alias Name assigned, that name will be used as the item, otherwise the item tag will be used.
  • Item Per Row: When checked, only one item per row will be listed with full details of quality and last update time.  When unchecked, one row per object will display with the items pivoted into columns.  The item quality will be known by "bad" quality data shown in magenta and "good" quality in black. 

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