Chapter 4 Platform Services (Station) And Administration; About Platform Services - LG niagara4 MultiSITE Edge 10 User Manual

CHAPTER 4 PLATFORM SERVICES (STATION)
AND ADMINISTRATION
Topics covered in this chapter

About Platform Services

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PlatformServices items of interest for device commissioning
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PlatformServices properties
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Controller-specific PlatformServices properties
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A few platform configuration items in the MS-E10 device are not directly accessible in the Workbench platform connection to that
controller—that is, via the Commissioning Wizard or any of the platform views. Instead, you must have a station installed and
running on the controller (any station).
Then using Workbench, open a (Fox) connection to that station, and configure these platform-related items by accessing
services under the station's PlatformServices container.
About Platform Services
Under its Services container, every station has a PlatformServices container.
In Niagara 4.8 and later, there is added support for the IEEE 802.1X wired authentication standard for JACE-8000 and MS-E10
platforms. For more details, see the Niagara IEEE 802.1X Configuration Guide.
Figure 27: Example device station's PlatformServices
PlatformServices is different from all other components in a station in the following ways:
It acts as the station interface to specifics about the host platform (whether MS-E10 device or a PC).
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It is built dynamically at station runtime—you do not see PlatformServices in an offline station.
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Any changes you make to PlatformServices or its child services are not stored in the station database. Instead,
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changes are stored in other files on the host platform, such as its platform.bog file.
Note:
Do not attempt to edit platform.bog directly; always use PlatformServices' views.
Included services are a TcpIpService and LicenseService, providing station (Fox) access to dialogs used in platform views, for
instance the TCP/IP Configuration. These services support installations where all configuration must be possible using only a
browser connection (and not Workbench connected to the MS-E10 device's platform daemon).
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