To open a platform connection to a JACE

To open a platform connection from Workbench to the JACE, do the following:

1. From the menu bar, select File->Open->Open Platform (Ctrl-Shift-P)

   The Open Platform dialog box appears.

2. Complete the fields in the Open Platform dialog box as follows:

   • Host — Leave at default IP, and type in the default IP address of the retrofit board (see IP address)

   • Port — Leave at default 3011.

   • Credentials (see Platform daemon credentials), which include:

     • Username — Type in default username: tridium

     • Password — Type in default password: niagara

3. Click the OK button to accept all settings.

   Figure 2. Connected JACE platform

   
   
   
   
   

   The Platform opens in Workbench’s view pane (Figure 2), showing available platform views in a table.

   If using standard NiagaraAX Workbench, such as used for NiagaraAX JACE commissioning, additional platform views are also listed. However, they are not applicable for a unit being configured for Niagara R2. Such views include DDNS Configuration, Dialup Configuration, GPRS Modem Configuration, Lexicon Installer, and Station Copier. Please ignore those platform views.

   A few of these platform views you can use now, even before installing Niagara R2, if needed. For example, it is recommended that you backup the R2 license file installed in the JACE, even before doing any other commissioning. For a procedure, see Copy the installed R2 license file.

   Also, you can select (double-click) the TCP/IP Configuration entry for the platform view used to change the JACE’s LAN1 IP address from factory defaults, and then reboot to make effective. For related details, see TCP/IP configuration.

   Another early useful platform view is the Platform Administration view, in which you can set the system date and time (and time zone) for the JACE. This becomes effective immediately, without a controller reboot. Then you can run the Install Niagara R2 wizard, which can include installing an R2 station. Then you can change the default IP address, along with other JACE commissioning. This is the method used in this document.

   Or, you can leave all factory defaults in place and install Niagara R2 first, then continue with other platform commissioning (including IP address re-assignment) after the JACE reboots.