Management Console Tour¶

The NF management console is a web-based interface for configuring and monitoring your deployment. This page walks through the main sections so you know where to find things.

Access the console at http://<your-host-ip>:8080 after deployment.

Dashboard¶

The dashboard is your landing page. It shows:

• Trended / Discovered Points -- how many points are actively collecting data vs. total discovered
• Labeled Points / Equipment -- modeling progress at a glance
• Error Rate -- percentage of failed polls across all devices
• Reachable Devices -- how many devices are currently communicating
• Fox Connections -- status of Niagara station connections
• Workflow Pending Changes -- modeling changes waiting to be applied
• Site Map -- geographic view of your buildings with pins

Device Health¶

The Device Health page gives you a fleet-level view of communication reliability:

• Error rate donut -- breakdown of devices by error rate bucket
• Historical trend -- device reachability over time
• Device table -- per-device error rate, last communication time, and a status timeline showing uptime patterns

Use the error rate filter to quickly find troubled devices.

Object Explorer¶

The Object Explorer is where you spend most of your time. It provides a searchable, filterable view of every point in your system.

Key features:

• Search -- find points by name, device, or any metadata
• Filters -- narrow by site, protocol, device, or point type
• Grouping -- expand device groups to see their objects
• Trend popup -- click a point to see its current value, statistics (min/median/max), and a time-series chart
• Bulk actions -- select multiple points to set poll periods, assign sites, or apply tags
• Views -- save custom column layouts and filters as named views

Discovery¶

The Discovery page manages BACnet device scanning.

• New Scan -- start a device discovery or object scan
• Scan history -- past scans with type, object counts, timestamps, and status
• Object drill-down -- expand a scan to see per-device results with object type breakdowns (AI, AO, AV, BI, BO, BV, etc.)
• Rerun -- re-execute a previous scan with the same parameters
• Export -- download scan results

Sites¶

Manage your buildings and locations:

• Map view -- all sites plotted on a map
• Site cards -- each building with name, address, timezone, and edit/delete controls
• Create -- add a new site with address auto-lookup for timezone and coordinates

Click a site card to edit its properties.

Equipment¶

The Equipment page shows your system model:

• Equipment types -- grouped by type (chiller, AHU, VAV, etc.) with instance counts and point totals
• Site tags -- which sites each equipment type spans
• Stats -- classification completeness per equipment type
• Frequently Used Classes -- sidebar showing the most common point classes across your model with counts

Schedules¶

The Schedule editor provides a visual weekly timetable:

• Weekly view -- drag to create time blocks, resize to adjust, drag horizontally to copy to other days
• Exceptions -- holiday and one-time overrides
• Targets -- which points or commands the schedule drives
• Settings -- schedule metadata and sync options
• BACnet sync -- bidirectional sync with BACnet schedule objects

Applications¶

Manage NF SDK applications:

• App cards -- each installed app with its icon, name, and status badge
• View -- open the app's UI (if it provides one)
• Configure -- adjust app settings
• Create -- install a new app from a repository URL or upload

Configuration¶

Found under Settings > Configuration. Tune NF's behavior:

• BACnet -- timeouts, concurrency, merge settings
• Polling -- timezone for timestamp interpretation
• Sparkplug -- MQTT broker, group/node IDs, payload format
• Commands -- default write priority
• System -- site name displayed in the console header

See Configuration for a full reference of all settings.

Navigation Tips¶

• Site filter -- the dropdown in the top-left filters all views by site
• URL deep links -- most pages support direct URLs, so you can bookmark specific views or share links with colleagues
• Left nav sections -- organized by function: Operate (day-to-day), Supervisor (schedules and apps), Modeling (data normalization), and BACnet (protocol-level tools)