Quick Configuration
Before you can monitor your computers, the server must be
configured, so you will have to define which computers should be
monitored and choose all settings to achieve a good configuration.
All settings and computer configuration can be made using the
XR PerfMon Tools FrontEnd, which is a standalone
application that configures the main OPC Server. These steps will
show you how to build a simple configuration file for monitoring
computers.
XR PerfMon Tools Server FrontEnd - Main Window
With XR PerfMon Tools FrontEnd opened, the first
step is to discover all computers that should be monitored. To
detect computers on your network, press the Setup Wizard
button.
At the second step, select the option Local Network and go
to the next step clicking on Next.
Network Browsing
In the third step, XR PerfMon FrontEnd will
attempt to find all computers within your subnet range. Go to
next step when Scan complete be displayed.
In the fourth step, all computers found will be listed. Select
which you want to monitor and go to the next step.
Now, Computer Browsing will scan for CPU, Hard
Disks and memory devices in all computers selected for monitoring.
Go to the next step when the scan be completed.
All components found in all computers will be listed in step 6.
XR PerfMon Tools FrontEnd will create
Performance Tags for each one.
Computer Browsing
Go ahead to the next step and complete the setup clicking on
Finish button.
Now, select all wanted Performance Tags by
clicking on Enable column of the tag. Activated tags are
checked and its symbols are red, while disabled tags are not
checked and has gray symbols.
Performance Tags Activation
Click on Activate Profile button to update the server and
reflect this new configuration. Then, confirm the publish
clicking on Yes.
Profile Activation
Start the server with
XR PerfMon Tools Server Monitor and review its
configuration. Probably you'll need to Reload the Server, clicking
on Reload Server button. In the screenshot below, it is
scanning one computer and current Server Status is
Normal.
Server Main Window
If your server status indicates Scan Overlap, you need to
change some computer specific configuration settings. Please refer
to detailed FrontEnd configuration section for information on how
to do that.
You need to start a client to read the information from the server.
You can use either XR Tag Explorer or any OPC
client(on OPC versions). To use XR Tag Explorer,
open it and click on Add Chart.
Tag Explorer Main Window
The Add Chart Wizard will open. In the first step, select
a name for the chart and click on Next button.
The Step 2 will show chart-specific options. Click on Next
and go to the third step.
Now you should select the monitored tags for this chart. Select all
tags navigating into Server Namespace. Then, click
on arrow pointing to right. To remove a tag from monitoring, select
the tag into Selected Tags and click on the arrow pointing
to left. Then, go to the last step.
Adding Tags in the wizard
The fourth step only shows all defined options for you. To save the
new chart click on Finish.
To finish configuration, click on Start Capture to start
to get data from server.
The Start Capture button
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