Joining a controller station to the Supervisor station
Joining the two stations updates the Supervisor’s Orion database (My SQL or MSSQL) with data from the controller’s HSQL database.
Prerequisites: The controller and Supervisor stations are connected with the controller station configured as the subordinate
station.
- From the Supervisor Home page, expand and click Station Manager.The Station Manager view opens. This view lists the stations that are currently part of the Supervisor station database. The table is empty if no stations are in the database.
- Select a single station and click the Join button (
) at the top of the view.The Join Manager view opens with the station name as the title of the view.
- If the
Time Differenceproperty is greater than one minute (displays in red), click Synchronize Time.A Synchronize Time window opens and, after confirming your choice, the time synchronization job brings the time of both systems to within one minute of each other. This ensures that records, which are added to the Supervisor station during the join process, have a common time reference. - To return to the Join Manager view, click the Back to Join Manager button (
). - Click the Distributed Schedule Manager link.The Distributed Schedule Manager view opens.
This step transfers schedules that originate in the remote host station to the Supervisor station and subordinates them to the master schedules in the Supervisor station. These schedules are not part of the Orion data.
- To find the subordinate schedules in the host controller station, click the Discover button (
), select and Add (
) or Match (
) the appropriate schedules to the join job. - Click Retrieve Import Status. By default, the Import Status for all records is Not Configured. A direct correlation exists between this list of Record Types and the actual table structure of the Database in the Supervisor station. Clicking Retrieve Import Status aligns the information in the host station with the database in the Supervisor station.
- Visually verify that the import Status for each Record Type makes sense. You should have a feel for how many people, badges,
access rights and readers exist in the controller. The process asks you to confirm the return to the not-configured state.
- If needed, use the Reset Import Status button to undo the Import Status.NOTE: All record types must be configured to identify matching objects (if any). The Commit button is not available until all the record types are configured. If there are conflicts between data on the Supervisor and the remote stations, a Recovery operation may be required instead of a join.
- To see the details of any synchronized record, click a link under the Record Type column.If there are no schedules in the remote station to import, you can skip the next steps.
- When the Import Status is configured for all Record Types, click the Commit button.The system reports the status of the join.