Monitoring

Introduction

Rimote Monitoring module is specially developed with its main purpose data clear in the cloud. Using this module you can clearly analyze your data in the Rimote cloud.

Tag configuration

Go to the connector of your system, you will see the Monitoring module.

You select Tags in the menu.

You will then arrive at the overview page. Here are all tags that are configured for the PLC. You can create and import the tags manually here. You can read this in the sections below.

This overview shows how many data points you have available. A data point represents how many values you can store per day. Depending on your subscription you have a number of data points available.

Create tags

If you want to create tags by hand, click on the button ADD.

Hier ziet u veel velden die u kunt invullen en selecteren.

• Connector A system can have multiple connectors. To ensure that you are connecting to correct PLC, select your connector here. If there is only one connector under system, it is automatically selected for you.
• Section PLC reference from Dataconnector configuration
• Objectname Objectname what object is called within PLC.
• Variable Variable within object in PLC.
• Description Description what you want to call it in our Rimote cloud.
• Datatype Datatype of variable.
• Interval (0 datapoints per day) Interval per second. If you want to trend for one minute, enter 60.
• Unit Unit how you want it displayed. Here you can specify everything.
• Active Whether values should be trended or not.
• CollectMode The way values are collected, this can be event based or interval based.

At the bottom of the page you can see how many data points you have left in your system. Again this depends on how much you have available on your subscription.

Import tags

If you want to import tags, it is important to know how the file is structured.

File must be named as follows: "System_Section[PLC].csv". Here it is important to know that the file must first start with the name of the system, followed by an _ (underscore), Section[PLC]. Between the square brackets, PLC must be named as to what section is called within data connector.xml file.

Separator in the csv file is a ; (semicolon).

File has the following columns:

• ObjectName Object name what object is called within PLC.
• Variable Variable within the object on PLC.
• DataType Data type that has variable.
• UnitType Unit how you want it displayed. Here you can specify everything.
• Description The description what you want to call it in our Rimote cloud.
• DefaultRimoteInterval Interval per second. If you want to trend for one minute, enter 60. If you do not want to trend, enter 0. This means the tag is not set to active. If you set it to 1, the tag is trended every second. In case of CollectMode event based use a value of 1
• Status 0 is active and 1 is obsolete.
• CollectMode event or interval. The way values are collected, this can be event based or interval based (default interval)

Below you can see the header how to start csv file.

ObjectName;Variable;DataType;UnitType;Description;DefaultRimoteInterval;Status;CollectMode

If you click on the Import button, the following window will appear in the browser.

If you click on Choose files..., you can upload one or more csv files at the same time. This can happen if multiple PLCs are available under your system in one go.

If you have selected your files, you will get an overview of how large the file is and which files you want to import all at once.

Dashboard

If you look at Dashboard you will see all graphs that are configured with trend tags.

Charts

If you go to Charts you can add new charts and adjust existing ones.

Here you see three graphs configured in this example. If you want to add a new graph, click the Add button.

Here you will see many fields that you can fill in and select.

• Name Name of chart.
• Charttype Type of chart in which values are to be displayed.
• Line interpolation How to group the line.
• Combine tags Whether all values must be combined with tags.
• Share y-axis Whether y-axis should be shared over all values or whether each tag has its own y-axis.
• Show baseline Whether baseline should be visible.
• Tag Tag whose values must be visible.
• Line thickness (px) Thickness of line
• Decimals How many decimal places must be rounded off.
• Color Color of line.
• Min value Minimum value.
• Max value Maximum value.
• Show y-axis on the right Y-axis with legend on the right.
• Auto as range Range is automatically determined between minimum and maximum values that are in database.