After using AX-3.7u1 or later Workbench to commission a JACE and install a station, by default the station is now accessible in Workbench (open in Fox connection) only using AX-3.7u1 or later Workbench. Any earlier “non update” AX Workbench (for example, build 3.7.44) will be unable to open the station.

While this could be overridden in the JACE station (in a new “Legacy Authentication” property of its FoxService), doing so would compromise security. For related details, see the section “Fox Service properties” in the NiagaraAX Drivers Guide.

Any other JACE commissioning operation affected by using either Niagara AX-3.8 or AX-3.7u1 is noted in this document. Otherwise, the term AX-3.7 is simply used instead.

Note that AX-3.8 and AX-3.7u1 (and similar 2013 “update releases” for AX-3.6u4 and AX-3.5u4) handle station passwords in a way that affects system upgrades, and (for update releases) ongoing station backup, copy, and restore functions. For more details, refer to the document NiagaraAX 2013 Security Updates.