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.

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.

Most sheets have a dedicated Clear Sheet button

The sheets Event_and_Trigger_Definition

Event_Identifier_Definition

and Event_Item_Definition

all have a section designed to provide in-sheet assistance.

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

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.