Periscope Prerequisites
- Periscope must run on a NiagaraAX NiagaraAX station, version 3.5 or higher. A . Periscope version 2.4+ can only run on AX version 3.7, 3.8 or Niagara 4, however. A station is defined as an instance of Niagara running on a hardware platform, so Web Supervisors and JACEs are considered a stationstations. It is strongly recommended that Periscope run on a Niagara Web Supervisor station due to the increased storage capacity, but it can be installed on a JACE station also.
- Any station running the Periscope service should have at least 5MB available. The Periscope module itself takes up about 2MB, and it will need room to maintain configuration and user dashboard options.
- The connected NiagaraAX NiagaraAX station must have oBIXTM oBIX (Open Building Information Xchange) installed and enabled in the station’s drivers folder.
- Periscope requires the installer and end-user to install the Adobe® Flash plug-in for their browser. Users will be prompted if they have not installed the necessary files to view Periscope.
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Installing jar, license and certificate
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files in NiagaraAX
• Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your current build of Niagara
• Place the alxPeriscope jar JAR file in the modules folder under your Niagara build
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• Place your Periscope license file in the licenses folder under your Niagara build (see following section for installations on Niagara 4)
• Place your certificate in the certificate folder under your Niagara build
Installing the Periscope License in Niagara N4
In addition to the previous installation step to install the license to the licenses directory (either manually or through the license manager), the license also needs to be installed to the following folder:
- Daemon User Home: {STATION_HOME}/shared/periscope
- On a typical CPU, this will be: C:\ProgramData\Niagara-4.X\{brand}\station\{station_name}\shared\periscope and is accesible through the Niagara Home folder
- The "periscope" folder should be created if it does not already exist in your station shared folder.
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Niagara 4 installations of Periscope 2.4 (and subsequent versions) require a new location for the license file due to new security settings within the Niagara software. Please see the step above for clarification on where to install your license file when operating Periscope on N4 software. You should also make sure that you have the correct JAR files/modules if you are installing Periscope 2.4 on Niagara 4, as there are different versions for Niagara AX and N4. |
Adding the Periscope Service in NiagaraAX
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