Overview

The Manage Equipment form is used to add, modify, or remove equipment from the system. 

When adding or modifying equipment all fields expect for the Equipment Description are required fields.  The License Level assigned will determine the type of DataXchange commands that can be run for the equipment.  The license level can be changed at any time by modifying the equipment and selecting the new license level.  The license level will synchronize with the DataXchange service within 3 minutes of making a licensing change.

Equipment must be associated to a plant when defining the equipment.  Note that only plants with an Active status are shown in the list.

The DataXchange Service selection needs to be the computer that has the DataXchange Service installed that will be responsible for collecting data from the associated piece of equipment.  The DataXchange Services can be defined on the Manage DataXchange tab.

Using the Status field to disable the Equipment will prevent any data from being collected and will hide the equipment from all reporting and charting functionality.

The Quantity of Licenses shows the amount of each license level that has been purchased and how many have already been assigned to equipment.

After machines have been created you can use the filter and sort options at the top of the page as an easy way to narrow down to specific machines.  Just as in many other applications you can click on the description header for that column to sort alphanumerically. By using the fields fields above the header, you are able to filter down your results even further by alphanumeric characters as well.

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