Commissioning

This selection from the Platform Administration view launches the Commissioning Wizard, an ordered sequence of various platform steps.
 NOTE: The Commissioning Wizard is intended for a remote controller only. This button is unavailable whenever you are connected to any Windows platform. For Commissioning details, refer to the appropriate Installation and Startup Guide for your particular controller. 

Typically, you use the Commissioning Wizard for the following:

  • The initial installation and startup of a controller.
  • To upgrade a controller.
 CAUTION: For any AX-3.6U4 station with CryptoService that you attempt to upgrade to AX-3.8U1, once you commission the controller the station will fail to start after the "successful" upgrade. The same is true if you attempt to move an AX-3.6U4 supervisor to an AX-3.8U1 station and start it. As a preparatory step, manually remove CryptoService from the station’s Services directory before attempting to commission it. 
 NOTE: Non-portable password encoding in AX-3.6 and AX-3.7 stations prevents upgrading those stations to AX-3.8 installations without first converting the passwords to a portable encoding format. Update release AX-3.8U1 provides the plat makeportable tool which converts such passwords to a portable format. For details on how to use the tool, see “Running the plat makeportable command” in the JACE NiagaraAX Install & Startup Guide.