Document Change Log

Updates (changes/additions) to this Niagara^AX Provisioning for Niagara Networks Guide document are listed below.

Updated: August 4, 2012

Document was updated for AX-3.7, with changes and additions that mostly relate to emphasizing usage of NiagaraNetworkJobPrototypes for regular station backups (for any release on NiagaraAX), plus the support of “secure platform access” (platform SSL) introduced in AX-3.7. Such changes are included in this Preface’s Provisioning FAQs section, changes in the Provisioning Niagara Quick Start, and the section Platform Connection that describes that provisioning extension for any NiagaraStation found in a AX-3.7 or later Supervisor.

Additionally, most screen captures were updated to show the default AX-3.7 “Lucid” Workbench theme. Numerous other minor changes were also made.
Updated: February 10, 2010
Document is a “version-split” from the previous Provisioning for Niagara Networks Guide revision, and applies to NiagaraAX-3.5 (AX-3.5) and later Niagara provisioning functions. Many NiagaraNetwork and platform-related changes were made in AX-3.5 that affected Niagara provisioning. With this version split, many notes and references about older revisions of NiagaraAX (AX-3.0 - AX-3.4) were removed. However, a few references remain, with the possibility of a Supervisor upgrade from and earlier release to AX-3.5.

AX-3.5-related changes to this document are many, but are concentrated in the following sections:
- The Provisioning FAQs section in this Preface was reworked to include changes starting in AX-3.5.
- Details on converting a Supervisor using the older “AX-3.1/AX-3.2 style” provisioning in were removed from the Provisioning Niagara Quick Start section, and put in a new appendix, Converting from old style (AX-3.1) Provisioning. Moving forward, this information should be rarely needed.
- In the main section Niagara ProvisioningNwExt Concepts, several screen captures were updated and other various minor edits made. Changes are generally in subsections Niagara Provisioning overview, Niagara Network Job Builder, Stations List (new dialog when add), Niagara Network Job View, ProvisioningNwExt properties (new timeout properties), job prototype Job retention, and job prototype add.
- In the other main section Provisioning Station Extension Concepts, several screen captures were updated and other minor edits made. Changes are generally in subsections Provisioning Manager, and Software extension’s Station Software View.
- Summary description in sections Provisioning Plugin Guides and Provisioning Niagara Component Guides were reviewed and updated, reflecting a few name changes given to plugins (views) and components since the initial provisioningNiagara and batchJob modules.
- As previously mentioned, a new appendix Converting from old style (AX-3.1) Provisioning was added.