Replicating users and user configuration properties in all network stations is more efficient than manually setting up users
in each station. This procedure explains how to synchronize user properties in the
Supervisor station with users in a remote station.
Prerequisites: You set up user prototypes and users in the UserService. You are working in
Workbench and are connected to a local
Supervisor station.
- Expand , double-click the NiagaraNetwork and click Discover.
A discovery job identifies all subordinate stations in the network.
- Select all discovered stations and add them to the
Supervisor station’s database by clicking Add.
The station automatically creates a set of NiagaraStations under the NiagaraNetwork, one for each discovered subordinate station.
- Expand each node in the Nav tree and set at least
Sync Out Enabled to true.Synchronizing-out replicates user data from the
Supervisor station to each target station. You would enable both
Sync In Enabled and
Sync Out Enabled in a subordinate
Supervisor station.
Each user device extension defaults to a Sync Strategy of Prototype Required.
- To use the default prototype for synchronization instead of a user prototype, open each Users node under each NiagaraStation and change
Sync Strategy to Use Default Prototype.
- Right–click the NiagaraNetwork in your
Supervisor station and click .
The User Sync Manager view opens.
- Select the NiagaraStations to synchronize and click Sync.
The system accesses the values for user properties from the user prototype names in the
Supervisor station and replicates them to the remote station users that have the same user prototype names. If a user does not exist
in a target remote station, the synchronization creates it.
- Expand each NiagaraStation under the NiagaraNetwork in the
Supervisor station and double-click Users.
- Confirm that synchronization succeeded by reviewing
Last Sync Attempt and Last Sync Success properties.