Practical field guide for backing up and restoring Niagara stations on JACE controllers, covering USB procedures, Workbench backups, platform recovery, and common pitfalls.
Best practices for managing Niagara station databases including history configuration, sizing, archive strategies, and performance tuning to prevent disk exhaustion.
Select the Create Backup tool to save the current database state. Use Restore Archive to overwrite an existing database with a previously saved backup.
Run the SQL Server installation media to either perform a fresh installation or upgrade an existing instance to a version compatible with SCT 17.1.
Check the system installed programs and versions to ensure compatibility with the required Microsoft SQL Server specifications for SCT.
Use the Insert menu to add a Metasys Server (ADS/ADX/OAS/ODS) or Supervisory Devices (Engines). Use Site Discovery to automatically find and add devices to the archive.
Use the New Archive wizard to define a name for the database and choose between creating an empty archive or using Device Discovery to populate the database from the network.
Maximum of 6000 histories exceeded on JACE-8 causing performance degradation.
Controller Configuration Tool unable to create CCT_DB database though FDB_Control is created.
Timeout occurs when Metasys Database Manager attempts to connect to SQL Server database.
Engine remains offline in Site Director tree after downloading new archive with SCT