About the Asset Manager tool

The Asset Manager manages users, organizations, and devices in preparation for interacting with any of the Niagara Cloud Services. Additionally, Asset Manager provides automated Niagara Service Maintenance Agreement (SMA) management and notifications.

It is accessed via either of these methods:

In a web browser connection to Niagara Community (www.niagara-community.com), click the Asset Manager link
In a browser/ Workbench connection to a station configured for cloud connectivity, click on the CloudConnector service. Note that a station connection to Asset Manager is solely for purposes of device registration and authenticating with Niagara Cloud Services.

The tool is organized by groups of related activities used to set up and maintain users, organizations, and devices. They are logically grouped by functionality.

Organization Management - manage aspects of an organization's account. For example, the company name and address, and primary/secondary contact information.
User Management - manage users within the organization. For example, add new users and assign roles.
Device Management - manage device licensing maintenance and notifications, as well as user access to device backups via assigned role.

Services

Following are a few of the device-related services:

Device Registration
Registering a device in the Asset Manager generates a System GUID (globally unique identifier) for the device. Both the device’s host ID and System GUID are in the asset manager and associated with a particular organization.
Maintenance management
Monitors device licensing and asset details.
Notifications
Notifies Organization Managers of imminent license expirations, pending user requests, pending organization affiliation requests, as well as tagged devices

Tagged devices

Tags are metadata markers which are associated with a device in order to facilitate grouping and searching.

Roles

Roles determine which activities are authorized for a user within the Asset Manager, as shown in the following table. By default, a new user is assigned the User role which has the lowest permission level. Note that a user may be assigned multiple roles.

Role	Description
Organization Manager	Performs both user and organization management activities. Adds users, assigns user role(s), adds organization affiliations, adds devices (single or multiple), provides approvals (affiliation and user) via notifications
Device Manager	Performs device management activities including device registration and device backup. May submit business affiliation requests.
User	The default user role, the user can view basic organization and device information but cannot perform other organization- or device-related actions. Also, allows the user to manage his or her own contact information.