Creating an event monitoring configuration using the Litmus Production Record External Event Configurator

the solution litmus production record external event configurator is designed to provide a guided experience to assist the user with where to start and where to go the sheet instructions provides a basic workflow, showing which sheets to go first and how to progress as well as providing a link to the litmus solution litmus production record event processing flow it also does provide a link to this documentation factory reset the configurator users can factory reset the configurator tool, for example if you want to create a new event configuration with the reset configurator button in the sheet instructions reset an individual sheet most sheets have a dedicated clear sheet button in tool guides and help the sheets event and trigger definition event identifier definition and event item definition all have a section designed to provide in sheet assistance help button most sheets provide a help ? button in the right upper corner of the sheet this button opens a help window with three tabs the first tab gives a high level how to guide restrictions on ascii characters allowed to be used the second tab shows which characters are allowed (green) and not allowed (red) when setting up a event name, node name, level name, device name, tag name or item name this is necessary, as certain ascii characters can cause the transact sql used by the litmus production record database to not work correctly, especially when retrieving data the third tab shows which characters are allowed (green) and not allowed (red) when setting up a topic this is necessary, as certain ascii characters are used by applications which use topics such as mqtt or nats for example as wildcards