Matching schedules
It is important to keep shared schedules up-to-date between the Supervisor and remote stations. Schedules may get out of synchronization
for any number of reasons. For example, if you remove a Supervisor from a remote Station Manager Database, the system deletes
from the remote controller station any schedules that are mastered on the Supervisor. You use the match feature to recreate
and synchronize schedules between the remote and Supervisor stations.
Prerequisites: You are working in the Supervisor station. The Supervisor and remote platforms are connected to the shared
network and both stations are running.
- Click .
- Click the Discover button (
).The system runs a schedule discovery job to learn (find) and display the schedules that are available. When the discovery job finishes all discovered objects appear in the Discovered pane below the Database pane. It is important to discover from the Supervisor station before doing anything else to make sure that the latest schedules are available in the Supervisor and remote stations. - Do one of the following:
- If schedule changes do not appear in the remote stations, initiate a replication from the Supervisor station.
- If the schedule exists in both stations, select the schedule in the Discovered pane and click the Match button (
).
When you match a schedule between a Supervisor and remote controller stations, the Supervisor version takes priority and overwrites the remote controller version of the schedule so that they are the same.NOTE: To keep the schedule, remove the schedule out of the NiagaraNetwork using
If you rename schedules, do it only while the Supervisor and subordinate stations are both online to allow for synchronization.
If you rename a schedule while a Supervisor and subordinate are disconnected, you must discover and match each schedule in
the remote stations.