Visualizing System Indexing operations

On the Supervisor station, you can use the StationManager view and Spy Remote view to see results and various details of System Indexing operations. Similarly, you can configure the JobService to display a job for every System Index operation.

Columns for viewing system indexing results are optionally available in the Station Manager view on the NiagaraNetwork.

Figure 1. Station Manager view optional columns for viewing system indexing results

As of Niagara 4.13, to view the indexing progress of the downstream reachable stations, you can select Reachable Stations Global Index State from the list of optional columns.

Additionally, the Station Manager view allows for batch editing of the Accepts Global Index Requests and Receive Exported Index From Remote Station properties.

Figure 2. Station Manager view batch editing properties

The following topics describe several methods of visualizing what is happening during system indexing.