Document Change Log

This topic summarizes the releases of this document .

June 24, 2022

  • In “Capacity licensing fault notifications” topics, changed estimated periodic recount time for globalCapcity count from 10 seconds to 10 minutes.
  • Added “Reverting to legacy MS/TP processor” to the “Platform Services” chapter.
  • Included “Components in the platMstp module” in the “Platform Component Guides” chapter.

December 14, 2021

Included in “Configure NRE Memory” the removal of the RAM Disk memory in the Configure NRE Memory Pools window as of Niagara 4.11.

September 29, 2021

Removed descriptions of support for NTP Platform Service on operating systems other than Qnx. Added a note describing removal of this platform service as of Niagara 4.9 and later.

October 8, 2020

Added component and plugin topics for the systemMonitor module.

August 7, 2020

Updated “Known limitations” noting the restriction requiring 64-bit PC.

January 9, 2020

Minor changes throughout to update for Niagara 4.9, replaced references to “applet” and “WebStart” with “Web Launcher”.

November 25, 2019

In chapter 1, in the section on “Types of platform views” added a couple of topics on using the Certificate Wizard platform tool.

In the Components and Plugins chapters, added new topics: NtpPlatformServiceLinux, NtpPlatformServiceNpsdk, NtpPlatformServiceEditorLinux, and NtpPlatformServiceEditorNpsdk, to support online help.

November 14, 2019

Made editorial changes throughout.

August 1, 2019

Edited the following topics in chapter 1 to add a note on Station Copier file exclusions for Workbench to remote platform copy operations: “Station copy direction” and “Station Transfer content step”.

February 27, 2019

Edited the following topics in chapter 1 for changes related to module signing in Niagara 4.8: “Software Manager”, Software details”, and “Station Copier”.

October 26, 2018

Minor changes throughout. Also added information on Niagara Edge 10 controllers to the topic, “Platform models”.

February 26, 2018

In the topic, “Windows platform user homes”, added a cautionary note on the importance of having separate locations for the Daemon User Home and the Workbench User Home.

December 20, 2017

  • Added the FIPS-related note to the procedure, “Opening a secure platform connection”.
  • Minor changes to the topics: topic "SMA expiration reminder” and “Opening a running station”.
  • Updates related to the SMA Expiration Reminder feature: added the topic "SMA expiration reminder”; and in the topic “Opening a running station”.
  • Updates related to FIPS 140-2 support in Niagara 4.6 and later: Added information about effects of the Workbench option to Show FIPS Options in the following topics: “Platform users change notes”, and “Updating system passphrase”.

October 23, 2017

  • Edited the topics: “Platform daemon on a PC” and “Windows platform user homes”, with added information on the software installer allowing users to specify a different daemon user home location.
  • Edited the topics: “Platform users change notes” and “Updating system passphrase” with added information about the requirement to change platform defaults in Niagara 4.4 (and later) enforced via the Change Platform Defaults Wizard.

August 22, 2017

Edited the description for Platform TLS setting in the following topics: “Change TLS Setting” and “Change TLS Setting Window” .

July 24 2017

In the topic “Configure NRE Memory”, added a general statement about fixed memory footprint serving all memory pools. Removed the memory space specific statements from the descriptions.

August 10, 2016

Added the following topics to the “Platform views” section: “View System Log” and “Configure NRE Memory”.

March 8, 2016

  • In the topic “Platform models,” added information describing the JACE-8000 and license feature which allows the controller to run NiagaraAX-3.8U1.
  • In the topic “System Passphrase,” added note after 1st paragraph that states system passphrase functionality is supported for JACE-8000.

August 18, 2015

Initial release.