About OpenData Device Templates

About OpenData Device Templates

Each device has a set of attributes that can be monitored. OpenData comes with templates for monitoring the attributes for many manufacturers’ devices. Templates are the easiest and fastest way to start monitoring your devices.

Modius templates generally do not have very many alarm threshold points configured. For multiple installations of the same device, import the Modius template for the first one, then configure the alarms, then export that template so it can be imported to other similar devices.

If no template exists for the device you wish to configure, you can configure a custom device template by following the steps in the article Modbus Template Configuration.

If you need help configuring a Modbus Template, please send an email to support@modius.com.

 

Importing 

To import a template for your device, follow these steps:

  • On the Collector, click the Administration tab, then the Devices ta
  • Click add new device…
  • In the Device Info section, click import device settings.
  • Click Browse…
  • Select a .tpl file
  • Click Upload Device Template to save the template
  • Add or edit fields to customize your installation

Scroll to the bottom of the page and click save.

Click “Click here” to continue.

* Note: if you have a legacy Cyclades Device Gateway, you will see a red “Unsaved Changes” message at the top of the page, and need to save changes as described in the next set of steps.

 

Saving Unsaved Changes in Legacy Cyclades Device Gateways

To save unsaved changes, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Administration tab, then the Advanced tab.
  2. Click save config, and then click on Click here to continue.

 

Exporting

When you have configured a device and want to use that same configuration for additional devices, you can export your configuration so that it can be imported later.

Note: Exported configurations can also be used to create an identical device to replace a device whose configuration becomes corrupt. However, to do a full backup of a Device Gateway, you must log on to the operating system and back up the /etc directory.

 

To export a template, follow these steps:

  1. Click the Administration tab, then the Devices ta
  2. Click edit for the device whose template you want to export.
  3. Click Export Device Setting
  4. Save the file to your local file system.
  5. Rename your device.tpl file to device.zip.

    • Related Articles

    • What is the OpenData Collector?

      is the Windows based data collection application that provides communication with devices, normalizes the data and reports the data back to the main OpenData application. Communication with the main application database is encrypted. (Blowfish) ...

    • SQL Server - Manual Device Deletion

      If you need to remove a device from the dashboard and it is not possible to use the Delete button on the Administration > Devices page, you can do it through SQL Management Studio. Marking a Device as Deleted In Management Studio run the following ...

    • OpenData - About - What is Failover? How does it work?

      Failover Systems with two or more OpenData EE Servers and a remote database have the ability to provide seamless failover if the active server fails. Each server runs three non-database services: the Message Broker, the Event Manager, and the web ...

    • OpenData - Services used by OpenData

      Installation of OpenData on a server will include three services: Apache Tomcat Modius - More info in this FAQ: What is Apache Tomcat? Event Manager Service Wrapper ModiusBroker OpenData also makes use of Microsoft SQL Server. This must be installed ...

    • SQL Server - Adding Templates to Bulk Upload Menu

      The steps to add a Device Template to the bulk upload menu on OpendataEE are: 1) Move the completed template into the appropriate directory. The default root device template directory is: C:\Program ...