Periscope Prerequisites

• Periscope must run on a Niagara4 station, version 4.0 or higher.  It is recommended that Periscope run on a Niagara Web Supervisor or SoftJACE due to increased storage capacity and speed but it can also run on any Niagara4 compatible JACE.
• Any station running Periscope must have at least 6MB available.
• Periscope is a web application and requires a modern browser. Officially supported browsers include IE10+ as well as the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox.

Installing Periscope

Saving and stopping your station:

•  Open your Platform and access the Application Director
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• Save your running station (Save Bog)
• Stop the station (Stop)

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• Close Workbench

Installing Periscope JAR file

• Using Windows Explorer, navigate to your current build of Niagara
• Place the periscope-rt.jar file in the modules folder under your Niagara build
• Place your Periscope license file in the licenses folder under your Niagara build

Installing License File

The license file provided is not a normal Niagara license and needs to be installed separately.  The license needs to be installed in:

• {STATION_HOME}/shared/periscope

 For example, on my local machine this is: C:\Niagara\Niagara-4.2.36.20\stations\demo\shared\periscope.  

Adding the Periscope Service in Niagara4

• Open Workbench, reopen your Platform and access the Application Director
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• Start the station
• Open the periscope palette
• Drag and drop the PeriscopeService from the pallete 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

User Setup

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Click on the links below to learn about the steps required to get Periscope Versions 3.0+ licensed, installed and configured for operation.