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Note
: The withstatus indicates whether the values that are being published have a status or not. This
parameter can have one of the following values:
•
0 – if the published value does not have a status;
•
Any other value – if the published value has a status.
Editing a channel
To edit a channel, you must perform the following actions:
1.
in the channels list, click on the entry that you want to edit;
2.
edit the desired parameters and click
Save
; the changes will be stored in the
Monitor
_Host_Publishers.conf
file.
Deleting a channel
To delete a channel, you must perform the following actions:
1.
select a channel in the list and click
Delete
;
2.
you will be asked for confirmation; click
Yes
to delete the channel or
Cancel
to abort the action.
After you perform any of the above operations, click
Activate
to load the changes into the Monitoring
Host.
Loading a List of Publishers
You can add multiple publishing devices at the same time by importing them from a file. The file will
contain the list of devices and their published channels, with the associated parameters respectively
expressed as comma separated values.
To load a list, you must perform the following actions:
1.
click on
Browse
to locate the text file that you wish to load and click
Upload
; the current
Monitor_Host_Publishers.conf
file will be overwritten;
2.
click
Activate
to load the new device list into the Monitoring Host.
Exporting the Publishers
This page also enables to export the publisher list (including channels), by clicking
Save
in the
Manage
publisher list
section.
6.3.7.3
Autodiscover Publishers
By checking
Autodiscover publishers
box will start the process of automatic update of the
Publishers
list,
by reading concentrator object info from all devices that does not have an entry in
Publishers
list. While
checked, it will also read publisher information from devices that join the network afterwards. The auto
discover process will also be triggered upon receiving a different DATA_CONTENTVERSION than the one
already known for a publisher, or by clicking
Rediscover All Publishers
button.
