Operations Control Management Console (OCMC)

Galaxy Database Manager

The Galaxy Database Manager is a System Platform utility you can use to manage your Galaxies. Use it to back up your Galaxies so that if a Galaxy becomes corrupted, you can restore the Galaxy. You can also use a backup to reproduce a Galaxy on another computer

The Galaxy Database Manager is automatically installed on every Galaxy Repository node. It lets you view all the galaxies in the Galaxy Repository, as well as the nodes they reside on.

Operations Integration Server Manager

The Operations Integration Server Manager allows local or remote configuration of the Operations Integration Server and its device groups and items, and can monitor and perform diagnostics on communication driver communication with PLCs and other devices.

Important! Like the LogViewer and Platform Manager, the Operations Integration Server Manager is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in. Many high-level functions and user-interface elements of the Operations Integration Server Manager are universal to all Operations Integration Servers. It is critical to read the documentation for both the MMC and the Operations Integration Server Manager.

To read the documentation about the MMC and Operations Integration Server Manager, select the Help topics on the OCMC Help menu. Both the MMC Help and the Operations Integration Server Manager Help are displayed.

Log Viewer

An important troubleshooting tool, the Log Viewer records messages from machine execution. The Log Viewer can:

• Monitor messages on any machine in the system

• Send a portion of the log to notepad or E-mail

• Filter messages on a flag Security for the log viewer is set at the galaxy level.

Log Flag Editor

The Log Flag Editor is a utility of the Log Viewer. You can use the Log Flag Editor to assign a flag value to each category of messages issued by an System Platform component. By switching flags on or off, you control which categories of messages are saved to the Logger.

You can use the Log Flag Editor to assign a flag value to each category of messages issued by an System Platform component. By switching flags on or off, you control which categories of messages are saved to the Logger. Also, you can use log flags to assign message categories to other System Platform components.

Most categories of messages are not logged. Typically, a component issues only error, warning, and informational messages. Most other message categories remain inactive.

The Log Flag Editor is primarily a troubleshooting tool. When a component begins logging error messages, you can use log flags to activate other message categories and begin saving additional diagnostic messages to the Logger.

Platform Manager

Using Platform Manager, you can access platforms and engines deployed to any PC node in the galaxy.

After highlighting a platform, you can use the Action menu to start or stop a platform, or set it OnScan/OffScan. If the platform has security implemented, you must be logged on as a user configured with the proper OCMC permissions to start the OCMC, Start/Stop engines and platforms, or write from the Object Viewer.