When you add the ProvisioningNwExt under a Supervisor’s NiagaraNetwork, in addition to the five provisioning extensions added to each child NiagaraStation, a new table-based view becomes available on the network: the Provisioning Manager, as shown in Figure 58.

This view provides a “network-at-a-glance” summary of provisioning-related items, where each row represents a NiagaraStation component (similar to the network’s default Station Manager view).

Included in each row is the status and health of each NiagaraStation’s “Platform Connection” (provisioning extension), updated by the ongoing “ping” monitor to its platform daemon. For any station (row), you can also right-click it and manually issue a “Ping” action.

See the following sections for further details: