Creating managed circuits

The Managed Circuits function in allows you to automatically create devices representing the circuits of multi-circuit devices, such as BCPM and PM5350 devices, so that you can then treat each circuit as a source for both real time and historical data in the system.

These sources represent the physical structure in the system. For information about organizing these circuits and other metering points into a recognizable system-specific hierarchy view, see "" on page 1 and also the online help in Hierarchy Manager.

The first step in creating managed circuits is to add the multi-circuit device to and check that it is communicating.

Once this is done, you can create managed circuits as source entries automatically as follows:

Right-click the multi-circuit device you added in to open the menu and click Configure Managed Circuits.

Click OK on the confirmation window to proceed.

The Configuring Managed Circuits dialog opens showing a progress bar as the circuits are being created. The number of circuits created are indicated under the progress bar field.

Click OK at the completion of the process.

The multi-circuit device now has an expand control (a plus symbol) on that row.

Click the + to expand the entry and view the circuits now associated with the multi-circuit device.

Managed circuits considerations

Because managed circuits are related to a multi-circuit device and are configured as part of that device, you cannot change the name of individual managed circuits, delete individual managed circuits, or change the measurements associated with the individual managed circuits.

However, you can keep the configuration up-to-date through the multi-circuit device configuration changes and then re-running the configure managed circuits process to update the managed circuits. Any circuits that have not changed remain unchanged. Any circuits that have been removed in the multi-circuit device are deleted as managed circuits. Any new circuits are created as new managed circuits.

By mapping managed circuits into a hierarchy, you can specify more recognizable names and organize them into a view that matches the facility or building.

If you rename the group name or device name for the multi-circuit device, the name changes are also applied to the managed circuits associated with the device. See "Renaming devices and groups" on page 1.

If you delete the multi-circuit device, a dialog message indicates that the managed circuits associated with the multi-circuit device will also be deleted.

If you have a number of multi-circuit devices configured in different ways, and you want to see which measurements apply to a specific managed circuit, double-click the specific managed circuit in Management Console to open the Managed Circuit Properties window. It provides: information about the managed circuit, its parent device, its group name, and the measurements associated with the circuit.

You can use the Duplicate and Configure option in to create multiple devices and add unit IDs for each device. (See "Setting up large systems" on page 1 for additional information.) After multiple multi-circuit devices have been created, you can select them in , right-click to open the menu and click Configure Managed Circuits. In systems with many multi-circuit devices, the managed circuit creation process takes some time, but the progress bar provides feedback on the progress of the creation process.