S M A Expiration Monitor (S M A Expiration Monitor)

Given the JSON Toolkit’s requirement for active maintenance (SMA) on non-demo licenses, this monitor increasingly notifies you as the license expiration date approaches. It runs on startup, then every 24 hours since the last check to establish if the expiration date is within the warning period or expired, and generates an offNormal or Fault alarm accordingly.
Figure 45.   S M A Expiration Monitor properties
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To configure these properties, expand Config > Services, double-click JsonSchemaService and expand S M A Expiration Monitor.

Although the alarms are likely the most accessibly notification method, the SMA monitor also logs messages to the station console and exposes the days remaining as a slot, which can be shown, for example, on a dashboard.

The station itself has an S M A Notification Setting under the UserService, which alerts you at the web login screen.

As an extension of S M A requires a reboot to install the new license, the monitor performs no further checks, once it detects an expired license, until the station starts again.

In addition to the standard Alarm Source Info properties, these properties are unique to the JSON Toolkit:

Property Value Description
Mode drop-down list (defaults to Early Warning) Configures when to activate an alarm regarding a pending license expiration.

Early Warning generates an alarm before the license expires.

Once Expired generates an alarm when the license expires and thereafter.

Disable Monitor turns monitoring off.

Warn below number of days from 1 to 180 (defaults to 30 days) Configures when to start warning of the license expiration.
Remaining read-only Displays the number of days before the license expires.