Using System Options for administrative utilities

Field

Notes

Login

Enable this field, then type your current and new password and confirm. Limit is minimum of 8 and maximum 40 characters of any type.

Starting Location and Starting Page

The i-Vu® location and page that will display after you log in. Select the User or Installer tree, if you have Installer role.

Automatically collapse trees

Expands only one tree branch at a time.

Automatically download schedules on each change

Select to automatically download all new schedules that you create and schedules that you change

Play sound at browser when server receives

The system audibly notifies you when one of the selected alarms is received.

Check Non-critical alarms or Critical alarms if you want the system to audibly notify you when that type of alarm is received.

Login Name

Must be unique within the system.

Force user to change password at login

Forces the operator to change his password immediately after his next login.

NOTE  You can combine the use of this field and the Change Password field to create a temporary password that the operator must change after his next login.

Starting Location

Set the starting location for each individual operator by choosing the specific area or controller in the navigation tree and the starting page from the drop-down menu.

Roles

See table below.

Installer

• Add, edit, and delete operators, operator groups, and privilege sets.
• Update the i-Vu® system with service packs and patches.
• Register the i-Vu® software.
• Enable and set up the advanced password policy.
• Add and remove i-Vu® add-ons.

Control program tables and Properties pages

Scheduling Groups pages in the User view navigation tree

System Options Items

Alarms

Logic Pages

Manage Alarm Messages and Actions - add, edit, and delete alarm messages and actions.

Maintain System Parameters - edit all properties on the System Options pages.

Maintain Schedules - add, edit, delete, and download schedules.

Maintain Schedule Group Members - add, edit, and delete schedule groups.

Maintain Categories - add, edit, and delete categories.

Acknowledge Non-Critical Alarms - acknowledge all non-critical alarms.

Acknowledge Critical Alarms - acknowledge all critical alarms.

Force Normal Non-Critical Alarms - force non-critical alarms to return to normal.

Force Normal Critical Alarms - force critical alarms to return to normal.

Delete Non-Critical Alarms - delete non-critical alarms.

Delete Critical Alarms - delete critical alarms.

Execute Audit Log Report - run the Location Audit Log and System Audit Log reports.

Download Controllers - mark equipment for download and initiate a download.

System Shutdown - issue the Shutdown manual command that shuts down i-Vu® Server.

Access Commissioning Tools:

• Equipment Checkout
• Airflow Configuration
• Trend, Report, and Graphic categories that require this privilege
• Discovery tool (i-Vu® Plus only)

Maintain Graphs and Reports - add, edit, and delete trend graphs and reports.

Remote Data Access-SOAP - retrieve i-Vu® data through an Enterprise Data Exchange (SOAP) application. (i-Vu® Plus only)

Manual Commands/Console Operations - access the manual command dialog box and issue basic manual commands.

Manual Commands/File IO - execute manual commands that access the server's file system.

Manual Commands/Adv Network - execute manual commands that directly access network communications.

Change My Settings - edit preferences on operator's My Settings page.

Setpoint Parameters - occupied and unoccupied heating and cooling setpoints

Setpoint Tuning Parameters - demand level setpoint offsets, color band offsets, heating and cooling capacities and design temperatures, color hysteresis, and learning adaptive optimal start capacity adjustment values

Tuning Parameters - gains, limits, trip points, hysteresis, color bandwidths, design temperatures, and optimal start/stop.

Manual Override Parameters - locks on input, output, and network point.

Point Setup Parameters - point number, type, range, and network source and destination

Restricted Parameters - properties the installer restricted with this privilege

Category Assignments - Alarm, Graphic, Trend, and Report category assignments

History Value Reset - elapsed active time and history resets, and runtime hours

Trend Parameters - enable trend logging, log intervals, and log start/stop time.

Calibration Parameters - point calibration offsets

Hardware Controller Parameters - module driver properties

Critical Configuration - critical properties the installer protected with this privilege

Area Name - area display names

Control Program Name - equipment display names

Alarm Configuration - enabling/disabling alarms and editing alarm messages, actions, categories, and templates

Status Display Tables - tables available under Status

Maintenance Tables - tables available under Maintenance

User Config Tables - tables available under User Config

Service Config Tables - tables available under Service Config

Setpoint Tables - tables available under Setpoint

Time Schedule data Tables - tables available under Time Schedule

System Statistics

• Numbers of controllers allowed and present in system
• Number of trend sources and samples in the database
• Estimated time to import/export clipping

Logs

For troubleshooting, download a zip file that contains a log of system activity. Logs are available for a maximum of 4 weeks.

Management Tool

Select Management Tool button to access the following:

• Download weekly system logs
• View or change system name and IP addresses
• Port Configuration
• Backup and Restore, Compress Trend Storage
• Reset to Factory Defaults
• Upgrade System Version
• Reboot
• NTP Configuration

Time

Time Format

• 12-hour clock (Example: 4:34 pm)

• 24-hour clock (Example: 16:34)
• Daylight Saving Time is automatically controlled. To update Daylight Saving begin and end dates, go to System Options > Daylight Saving.
• Enable time synchonization of controllers daily at - Automatically synchronizes the time on all equipment to the time on the i-Vu® web server, adjusting for different time zones and Daylight Saving Time. We recommend that you enable this field.

  CAUTIONS  

  • To prevent time sync problems when the transition to and from Daylight Saving Time occurs, set the time sync to occur at least 1 hour after the last controller in the system is adjusted for DST. For example, your i-Vu® and part of your system is in the Eastern Standard Time zone, but you also have controllers in the Pacific Time zone. Your server is adjusted for DST at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, but the controllers in the Pacific Time zone are not adjusted until 3 hours later. So you would set the time sync to occur daily at 6:00 a.m. or later.
  • Make sure that your i-Vu®’s time and time zone setting are correct.
• Time Sync – Sends a time broadcast to synchronize all controllers in the system with the i-Vu® web server's time.

Alarms

Select the checkbox to enable Alarm Notification functionality. See Alarm Popup alarm action.

Trends

NOTE Configurable for i-Vu® Plus only. i-Vu® Standard is 7 days.

Import/Export Source Files

Use to import or export source files in a .zip file that can be imported or exported to/from another i-Vu® or Field Assistant system. Source files include:

• Control programs (.equipment files only)
• Drivers
• Graphics (.view files only)
• Touchscreen files
• BACview® files
• Report design files for Equipment Values or Trend Sample reports

NOTE If import detects a difference between a database file and an import file with the same name, import does not overwrite the database file. A message lists any file differences so that you can resolve them.

See Commissioning equipment using Field Assistant.

Download

You can increase download speed by checking Optimize download for Open PIC controllers. The full source files are not downloaded into the PIC controllers when this is checked.

You can increase download speed by unchecking Include graphics in Open programmable controller download. If you are not changing the graphics, you may not want to include them in every download in order to save time.

Clippings

• Navigation tree items including attached control programs, graphics, drivers, and screen files
• Trend datal
• Reports
• Alarm categories
• Schedules and schedule group membership (including the entire schedule group and schedules, if it does not exist in the target system)
• Alarm actions

NOTE A clipping containing CCN controllers does not include the CCN tables. When importing a clipping containing CCN devices, you must re-scan the table.

System Status

i-Vu is running at:

This is used to troubleshoot server or LAN communications.

Click the Stop Server button to stop the i-Vu® web server. When stopped, the button changes to Start Server. Do NOT close the Management Tool before restarting the server. Click to restart.

Weekly system logs:

• System - used for troubleshooting (same as logs available from System Options > General tab). Logs are available for a maximum of 4 weeks.
• Kernel - operating system logs

Addressing

CAUTION If you change the name or the IP address of your system, record the numbers in a secure place.

• Name - Controls the name used to access your system from the Internet. Do not use special characters or spaces.
• Obtain an IP address automatically - Uncheck this to manually assign addresses for the following:
  • i-Vu Address
  • Subnet Mask
  • Default Gateway
  • DNS Address - IP address of the Domain Name Server
  • Domain - Host name of the domain (i.e. carrier.utc.com)
  • USB Network Type - Read-only field shows either CCN or BACnet types.
  • USB Network Address - IP address of the internal BACnet router or the internal CCN Gateway

i-Vu Port Configuration

Changing these values forces a web server restart.

Default values: HTTP: 80 HTTPS: 443

Operation Status

Message showing progress of background operations, such as backup and restore.

Manage Server Data

• PC Backup - Saves the entire database zipped into one file to your computer.
• PC Restore - Replaces the current server data with a backup from your computer.
• USB Backup - Saves the entire database zipped into one file onto a USB inserted into the i-Vu® web server.
• USB Restore - Replaces the current server data with a backup from your USB inserted into the i-Vu® web server.
• Compress System - Creates more storage space for trend data.
• Factory Defaults - Deletes all server data and resets the device to the original factory default values.

  NOTE Executing this option does not delete configuration data under the Addressing and i-Vu Port Configuration sections of the Management Tool.

Machine Maintenance

• Management Version - Apply .update file from here.
• Reboot - System restart

Return operators to previous locations when server reconnects.

Returns operators to current navigation tree locations when the server reconnects.

Log off operators after _:_ (HH:MM) of inactivity

The system automatically logs off an operator who has had no activity in the system for the time period specified.

This is a default setting for the system. The Installer or Administrator can change this setting for an individual operator on the Operators tab.

Lock out operators after __ minutes after __ failed login attempts

Set the time that a user will be locked out of the system after the failed number of login attempts has been reached.

NOTE  Restarting the i-Vu® application removes lockouts.

Clear Lockouts

Remove lockouts for all users.

Use advanced password policy

You can place specific requirements on passwords to increase security. See Advanced password policy.

Permissions

Permissions

When control programs, views, touchscreen, and BACview® files are created by an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), they cannot be used in the i-Vu® system without the creator's permission. However, the creator can produce a key for a system with a different license that will grant permission to the key's recipient.

If you receive a key, put it in a convenient location on your computer. To activate a key, click Add, then browse to the key.

To delete a key from your system, select the key in the table, then click Delete.

Red text in the table indicates the key has a problem such as it does not apply or has expired. See the Notes column for an explanation.

Use advanced password policy

Enable this field to put restrictions on passwords.

An operator’s login name and password must be different when this policy is enabled.

After you change the password policy, any operator whose password doesn't meet the new requirements will not be locked out of the system, but will be prompted to create a new password.

Passwords must contain

You can specify how many characters and which of the following types of characters a password must contain:

• Numbers
• Special characters—any keyboard character that is not a number or letter.
• Letters—uppercase, lowercase, or both.

Cannot be changed more than once every __ days.

Enter a number to limit how often users can change their passwords. When set to 0, users can change them as often as they want.

May not be reused until __ different passwords are used.

Enter a number between 1 and 20. Enter 0 to reuse passwords without a delay.

Expire after __ days

Enable to set the number of days an operator can use his password before the system requires him to change it. Enter a number between 1 and 999.

Force expiration

Click this button to force every user's password to expire. Each user will be prompted to change their password when they next attempt to log in to the i-Vu® interface.