This topic summarizes the releases of this document .
June 24, 2022
- In “Capacity licensing fault notifications” topics, changed estimated periodic recount time for globalCapcity count from 10
seconds to 10 minutes.
- Added “Reverting to legacy MS/TP processor” to the “Platform Services” chapter.
- Included “Components in the platMstp module” in the “Platform Component Guides” chapter.
December 14, 2021
Included in “Configure NRE Memory” the removal of the RAM Disk memory in the Configure NRE Memory Pools window as of
Niagara 4.11.
September 29, 2021
Removed descriptions of support for NTP Platform Service on operating systems other than Qnx. Added a note describing removal of this platform service as of
Niagara 4.9 and later.
October 8, 2020
Added component and plugin topics for the systemMonitor module.
August 7, 2020
Updated “Known limitations” noting the restriction requiring 64-bit PC.
January 9, 2020
Minor changes throughout to update for
Niagara 4.9, replaced references to “applet” and “WebStart” with “Web Launcher”.
November 25, 2019
In chapter 1, in the section on “Types of platform views” added a couple of topics on using the Certificate Wizard platform tool.
In the Components and Plugins chapters, added new topics: NtpPlatformServiceLinux, NtpPlatformServiceNpsdk, NtpPlatformServiceEditorLinux, and NtpPlatformServiceEditorNpsdk, to support online help.
November 14, 2019
Made editorial changes throughout.
August 1, 2019
Edited the following topics in chapter 1 to add a note on Station Copier file exclusions for
Workbench to remote platform copy operations: “Station copy direction” and “Station Transfer content step”.
February 27, 2019
Edited the following topics in chapter 1 for changes related to module signing in
Niagara 4.8: “Software Manager”, Software details”, and “Station Copier”.
October 26, 2018
Minor changes throughout. Also added information on Niagara Edge 10 controllers to the topic, “Platform models”.
February 26, 2018
In the topic, “Windows platform user homes”, added a cautionary note on the importance of having separate locations for the
Daemon User Home and the
Workbench User Home.
December 20, 2017
- Added the FIPS-related note to the procedure, “Opening a secure platform connection”.
- Minor changes to the topics: topic "SMA expiration reminder” and “Opening a running station”.
- Updates related to the SMA Expiration Reminder feature: added the topic "SMA expiration reminder”; and in the topic “Opening
a running station”.
- Updates related to
FIPS 140-2 support in
Niagara 4.6 and later: Added information about effects of the
Workbench option to Show FIPS Options in the following topics: “Platform users change notes”, and “Updating system passphrase”.
October 23, 2017
- Edited the topics: “Platform daemon on a PC” and “Windows platform user homes”, with added information on the software installer
allowing users to specify a different daemon user home location.
- Edited the topics: “Platform users change notes” and “Updating system passphrase” with added information about the requirement
to change platform defaults in
Niagara 4.4 (and later) enforced via the Change Platform Defaults Wizard.
August 22, 2017
Edited the description for Platform TLS setting in the following topics: “Change TLS Setting” and “Change TLS Setting Window”
.
July 24 2017
In the topic “Configure NRE Memory”, added a general statement about fixed memory footprint serving all memory pools. Removed
the memory space specific statements from the descriptions.
August 10, 2016
Added the following topics to the “Platform views” section: “View System Log” and “Configure NRE Memory”.
March 8, 2016
- In the topic “Platform models,” added information describing the JACE-8000 and license feature which allows the controller to run
NiagaraAX-3.8U1.
- In the topic “System Passphrase,” added note after 1st paragraph that states system passphrase functionality is supported
for JACE-8000.
August 18, 2015
Initial release.