Supervisor homes

The homes on a Supervisor or engineering workstation support supervisory functions.

Supervisor homes include:

A Sys Home, which contains runtime files, such as core software modules, the JRE, and binary executables.
A User Home for each user. These are known as Workbench User Homes. They contain station configuration data, including option files, and registries.
A platform daemon User Home, which contains the Supervisor station and platform configuration data.
Two station homes: a Protected Station Home and a Station Home. These are located on the computer’s drive C.

Figure 1. Example Sys Home (niagara_home) on a Supervisor platform

The example above shows the file system for Niagara 4 Supervisor running on a Windows PC. In the example, the actual location of the System Home folder on this PC is:

C:\niagara\niagara-4.7.109.14.

The following table provides a summary of the Supervisor or engineering workstation homes with shortcut information.


Home in the Workbench Nav tree	Home in the Platform Administration view	Niagara 4 alias	Windows folder location and contents	File ORD shortcut
My Host > My File System > Sys Home	System Home	niagara_home	C:\niagara\niagara-`4.x.xx` where `4.x.xx` is the software version that contains executable and software files.	! (as in Niagara4.x)
My Host > My File System > User Home	N/A	niagara_user_home	C:\Users\`username`\N4-`4.x.xx`\tridium where: `username` is your name to identify you as the user of your computer. `4.x.xx` is a software version. The Workbench User Home for each human user contains that user’s unique configuration files.	~ (unique to Niagara 4)
shared folder	N/A	station_home	C:\Users\`username`\N4-`4.x`\tridium\shared where: `username` is your name to identify you as the user of your computer. `4.x.xx` is a software version.	^ (as in Niagara4.x)
stations folder	N/A	protected_station_home	C:\ProgramData\N4-`4.x`\tridium\stations\<stationName>	^^ (unique to Niagara 4)
N/A	User Home	niagara_user_home	C:\ProgramData\Niagara4.x\<brand> Platform daemon user home (non-human user) holds platform daemon configuration files. Requires a local platform connection to view in the Platform Administration view.	~ (unique to Niagara 4)