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  • Open your Niagara Platform and open the Application Director

  • Save your running station (Save Bog)

  • Stop the station (Stop)


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*The menu shown above is located on the right side of the Application Director window

Installing Periscope JAR file

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  • Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your current build of Niagara
    • Typically: C:/Niagara/Niagara-4.X
  • Place the periscope-rt.jar file and any other Periscope-related modules in the modules folder under your Niagara build
  • Place your Periscope license file in the licenses folder under your Niagara build

Adding the Periscope Service in Niagara4

  • Open Workbench, reopen your Platform and access the Application Director
  • Start the station
  • Open the periscope palette:
    • In Workbench's upper options menu, select Window > Side Bars > Palette
    • In Palette on lower-left corner of Workbench, select the folder icon and search for periscope
  • Drag and drop the PeriscopeService from the periscope palette into your station's Services
  • After which, Periscope installation will be complete and you may open Periscope by going to http:/(IP address of the Web Supervisor/JACE)/periscope
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Installing License File

The license file provided is provided is not a normal Niagara license and license and needs to be installed separately.  The license can be automatically installed as long as the Niagara server has access to the internet.  

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  1. Navigate to Services/PeriscopeService within your Workbench station
  2. Right Click -click on PeriscopeService and click select Action > Fetch License

At this point your license file will be downloaded from Periscope servers, copied into the appropriate directory, and loaded.

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To manually install the license, copy the license file into the following folder into:

  • {STATION_HOME}/shared/periscope

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        • On a typical CPU, this will beC:\

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        • ProgramData\Niagara-4.

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        • X\{brand}\station\{station_name}\shared\periscope

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      • The "periscope" folder should be created if it does not already exist in your station shared folder.
         
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      The "Debug License" action will print generate some additional information about your license file into the Station Output. This can be a useful tool to identify license problems or assist tech support.

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      titleImportant Notes:

      • If your dashboard locks up, try refreshing the page.
      • You can delete a user’s dashboard by deleting the folder station:\files\Periscope\users\[username]
      • Contact techsupport@activelogix.com for support questions

      Selecting Sites

      Before using Periscope the user must choose which sites in the database are available to Periscope, each of which will consume one "site" in the license. 

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