Document change log

This topic summarizes the releases of this document and the changes made at each release.

June 7, 2024

Minor corrections in “Configuring prototype job retention policy” topic.

As of Niagara 4.14, updated the Import Signed Certificate job step by adding the Use Filename as Alias checkbox option.

June 20, 2023

Updated the “Update Connections Using Provisioning Station's DHCP Server”, “Provisioning in a mixed AX/N4 or N4.x network” and “Updating connections using a provisioning station’s DHCP Server” for JACE-9000 reference.

March 10, 2022

  • Added retention policy information and how to apply them to “Configuring prototype job retention policy” section.
  • Updated the general backwards compatibility table of the 4.12 provisioning step “Set Platform User Password” in chapter “Provisioning in a mixed AX/N4 or N4.x network”.
  • Added job step components for “Configure Niagara IdP and SAML Scheme” (4.9), “Copy Supervisor File”, “Remove Property” (4.12), and “Security job steps”. In addition, included “Removing a Property” in the “Housekeeping” chapter.
  • Updated components, many screen captures and job steps.
  • Added new job step “Set Platform User Password” and component “SetPlatformUserPasswordJobStep”.
  • Added new topic “Device Bootstrap” in the “Components” chapter.

August 18, 2021

  • Edited multiple topics in the process of documenting client certificate authentication.
  • Updated “Job list step management.”
  • Updated screen capture and graphics in “provisioningNiagara-NiagaraNetworkJobBuilder”.
  • Updated “provisioningNiagara-NiagaraNetworkPrototypeView” with new Set Property job step.
  • Added new control to view and edit the details of a selected step.

October 30, 2020

  • Many edits throughout related to functional changes for Niagara 4.10.
  • Included additional details on backwards compatibility of provisioning steps for Niagara 4.9.

December 3, 2019

Many edits throughout related to functional changes for Niagara 4.9 There are several added steps in Chapter 1 and an added component topic for each new step.

September 6, 2019

For clarification, edited the description of what this step does in the procedure, “Updating connections using provisioning station’s DHCP Server”.

June 11, 2019

Many edits throughout on changes in Niagara 4.8. These edits include the following:

  • Replaced several figures throughout to show latest changes.
  • Added topics on the provisioning steps: “Add Station User step”, “Install Clean Distribution step”, and “Remove Station User step”.
  • Added new procedures on: “Installing a Clean Distribution File”, “Setting station connection credentials”, “Adding a station user”, Removing a station user”, and “Setting a property”.

April 11, 2019

Many minor edits throughout to reflect functional changes in Niagara 4.8, including updates to the following:

  • Edited “Update License” job step and job progress indicator.
  • Replaced many figures shown in Chapter 6: Plugins (views).

December 12, 2018

Updated topics “Software Installation step” and “Installing software using the add button” on the added filtering capability in Niagara 4.8 and later.

October 9, 2018

Many changes throughout including updating/adding topics describing provisioning steps and functional changes added in Niagara 4.7.

July 17, 2018

Revised the procedure, “Setting up and running a bulk provisioning job” and removed one other procedure.

April 30, 2018

Updated for template bulk provisioning

September 26, 2016

Minor revisions

August 19, 2015

Initial publication