## software components

This section outlines the software components, and how they are used to build, monitor, maintain and customize your system.

### Monitoring applications

The following applications are most commonly used in day-to-day power monitoring tasks:

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The "" component displays graphical representations of your power monitoring system. displays real-time and historical information, visual objects that indicate the current status of your system, and interactive objects that you can use to perform certain actions such as resetting a counter.

Note

In this document, “Vista” refers to the component of . The Microsoft Windows Vista operating system is referred to as “Windows Vista”.

#### Web applications

The Web Applications component of the product includes the following applications for your power monitoring requirements:

Dashboards

Trends

(includes alarms and events).

For further information see the online help in the component.

#### Alarm Configuration

The Alarm Configuration application allows you to configure software alarms for multiple sources and measurements. Each alarm configuration is represented as an Alarm Rule. The rule includes a threshold value, pickup and dropout delays, an update rate, and the alarm priority.

For further information see Alarm Configuration Help available from the Alarm Configuration application.

### Management applications

The following applications help you set up and maintain your power management system.

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Use the "" component to add and configure network components such as servers, sites (communication links) and devices. also provides access to system and database applications, and utilities. These are described in the following topics:

"" on page 1

"" on page 1

"License Manager" on page 1

"" on page 1

"Deactivate Alarms" on page 1

" " on page 1

"" on page 1

"" on page 1

"" on page 1

"Logical Device Editors" on page 1

"" on page 1

"" on page 1

" Setup" on page 1

"" on page 1

" " on page 1

Also available from the Tools menu is the PQDIF Exporter. This component lets you export data to Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF) and set scheduled exports with notification. See "PQDIF Exporter" on page 1 for more information.

#### Optional OPC Server Assistant

The OPC Server Assistant is a utilty that you use to expose custom measurements as OPC tags. You open the utility from or the . See "OPC Server Assistant" on page 1 for further information.

The OPC Server Assistant is available during the 90-day trial period. After the trial period, you need to purchase an OPC DA Server license and activate it through the Floating License Manager to enable OPC server functionality.

The OPC Server Assistant is only available when activated through License Manager with the optional OPC Server license.

### Programming applications

The following applications help you customize elements in your system and configure third-party devices so the system can recognize and utilize them:

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Use the "" component to perform a wide range of functions, from configuring setup registers of devices on your network to creating complex frameworks using a combination of ION modules from hardware or software nodes.

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Use the "" component to integrate third-party Modbus devices into your network.

#### Large system setup using

Use the Duplicate and Configure function to set up large systems efficiently. See "Setting Up Large Systems" on page 1 for more information.