Document change log

Updates (changes and additions) to this document are listed below.

October 23, 2023

  • In “Overview”, added that N4Supervisor is sufficient to use Niagara Cloud.
  • In “Requirements”, added that Forge Connect modules (fcModelSync, fcTagDict, fcEasyOnboard) are required to be installed to use Niagara Cloud.

December 12, 2022

  • Added property descriptions for “Force Relinquish Enabled” and “Force Write Delay” in the “Cloud Point Device Ext (nCloudDriver-CloudPointDeviceExt)” component.

June 13, 2022

  • Updated “Version compatibility matrix”.
  • Added property description for “Point Subscription Period”.
  • Updated “MessageClientUpgrader (cloudIotHubDep-MessageClientUpgrader)” component.
  • Added chapter “From the cloud to station”, and components “Cloud Write Controller” (nCloudDriver-CloudWriteController) and “Cloud Write Info (nCloudDriver-CloudWriteInfo).

April 20, 2021

  • Edits to several component topics to update for Niagara 4.11/ Honeywell Forge Connect FC 1.3.
  • Updated Tuning Policies for the NiagaraCloudNetwork component, as well as several minor edits throughout.
  • Updated the “Requirements” topic with a list of software modules required for any Forge Connect installation.
  • Updated the “Event messages and system commands” topic with added details on new commands and changes to existing commands. Plus similar updates to “Predefined commands” and “Predefined command responses” topics in the “Security recommendations” section of the guide.

November 24, 2020

  • Edits throughout to update for Niagara 4.9 /4.10 and Honeywell Forge Connect.
  • Added “Troubleshooting” and “Tuning” chapters to this guide.
  • In the “Install and configure” section, added a procedure on “Configuring a cloud Point Learn job”. Other changes include, edits made in several of the component topics. Edited the section on, “Security recommendations”.

August 12, 2019

  • Edited an existing note in the “Requirements” topic to include the transparent proxy server requirement.
  • Edited several component topics to add information on new properties for configuring message throttling.

December 17, 2018

  • Added a note on trimming whitespace from JSON messages to the topic, “Send Commands”.
  • Added the procedure, “Configuring a history export learn job”.
  • Minor changes the topic, “cloudConnector-CloudConnector”.
  • Edited properties in the topics, “nCloudDriver-CloudHistoryExport”, and “nCloudDriver-CloudProxyExt”.
  • Added the topic, “nCloudDriver-CloudHistoryExportManager.
  • Edited steps and referenced palette in the procedure, “Adding the CloudConnector_Sentience service”.
  • Minor changes throughout the document related to the 2.0 release.
  • Minor corrections throughout Also edited the topic, “User Authentication/Authorization”.
  • Edited the procedure, “Adding the CloudConnector_Sentience service”.
  • Many additional changes throughout related to added features for the 2018.5.x release. In the “Components and other references” chapter, added several new components topics Also added the chapter, “Security recommendations”.
  • Added two topics: “Configuring role mappings” and “ nCloudDriver-RoleMappings”. Also, a few changes were made to the cloudConnector-CloudConnector_Sentience nCloudDriver component topic.
  • Many additional changes throughout related to added features for the 2018.4.x release.
  • Minor changes to the “nCloudDriver-NiagaraCloudNetwork” and “nCloudDriver-CloudPointDeviceExt” component topics (added details on tuning policies).
  • Minor changes to the “Requirements” topic, and added a procedure for “Installing software modules” to Chapter 1.
  • Added the “Configuring the station to receive commands” topic and subtopics to Chapter 1.
  • Added the “nCloudDriver-CloudAlarmExt” component topic to Chapter 3.
  • Minor corrections to property descriptions for several component topics in Chapter 3.
  • Many changes to component topics in Chapter 3.
  • Minor updates, the “nCloudDriver-CloudAlarmRecipient” topic added to Chapter 3.
  • Initial document publication