Platform Connection

The Platform Connection component, among the provisioning extensions, specifies the HTTP port and credentials for the Supervisor to use for making a platform connection to each host represented by a NiagaraStation. Platform connections are used in most provisioning jobs, and in the polling performed by the ProvisioningNwExt. Starting in AX-3.7, you also specify if a secure platform connection (platform SSL) should be used.

In order for provisioning to work for any station, you must specify both its platform port and platform credentials in each newly-created Platform Connection extension. You can do this in its property sheet, as shown in Figure 60 (no “special” views exist for this extension).

Figure 60. Platform Connection property sheet (AX-3.7 station shown)

The following sections provide more details:

properties
Ping action
New station notes