Asset Updates

Over the next few releases, we aim to make Assets much more powerful and central to the Centrix workflow. 

For example, searching for things should have the option of searching by Asset as well as by Site and then Channel.

Alarms should be linked to an asset. This would allow for more sophisticated logic and analysis to be done when an alarm raises. Prior to this release, only Points Alarms and Track Circuit Alarms have been linked to Assets (when created via the Alarm Wizards).

This release splits the asset view page into multiple tabs: Health, Alarms and Playback. This speeds up each individual tab and allows a user to focus on the one aspect they are interested in. 

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Asset Health Tab

The Health tab is designed to be a high level overview of the Health of an asset. As a bare minimum, this shows the number of alarms which have been thrown by the asset in the last x days.

Until all of the alarm types are linked to assets, this page will not be useful for many assets.

However, for something like a Hydraulic or Electric Points asset, Centrix shows a more detailed breakdown of the Asset's health (based on alarms and the tags applied to the capture traces). A user can click on many of the numbers to view the capture traces or the specific alarm raise pages. 

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Asset Alarms Tab

This tab allows a user to solely focus on recent alarm raises on the asset. If an alarm has been raised, the user can jump straight to the alarm raise page.

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Asset Playback Tab

The playback tab is designed to give an in depth analysis of an asset, it's most recent events and how most recent behaviour compares to historical behaviour.

For Asset types where Centrix does not have any in depth graphs to show yet, it instead shows the most recent events which have come in from the assets channels - just like the Inspect > Events page.

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Asset Edit Page

All of selectors (Type, Site and Channels) are now more consistent with the rest of the selectors in Centrix.

You are no longer allowed to change the Asset Type of an existing Asset. This is to protect existing assets and alarms associated with those assets.

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SSI Asset

A new SSI Asset type has been added. This represents a collection of TFM health channels sent by a logger monitoring an SSI.

In order to create an SSI asset, all that is required is the site name and the SSI ident. Required channels can be automatically detected if available.

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The new SSI Asset allows for historical replay of data link health. This makes it simple to check for inconstancies between the data links or other communication issues.

SSI comms health data is received by Centrix every 10 minutes, as a percentage of successful messages sent over that period. Each grid cell represents the lowest percentage comms health over a one hour period. Green cells indicate zero communication loss, colours between yellow and red indicate 99.9% - 0% communication loss.

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Each grid cell can be hovered or clicked to display exact communications health data for that channel.

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EBITrack 400 Receiver Asset

Previously, any EbiTrack 400 Receivers were stored in Centrix as an Audio Frequency Track Circuit Asset. 

A new Asset type has been made specifically for these so that extra channels specific to the EbiTrack 400 Receiver can be shown in Centrix.

These Assets have automatically been migrated to this new Asset type. This has been done by using the naming convention of the Asset and its channels: All EbiTrack 400 Receiver Assets have a naming pattern of EbiTrack * ( * ) and all of the mapped channels follow a naming pattern of EbiTrack * ( * ):* e.g. EbiTrack * ( * ):IAVE

Any that did not follow this naming pattern will not have been migrated and will still be Audio Frequency Track Circuit Assets.

Only the IAVE channel is required.

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As well as automatically adding these new channels, an alarm has automatically been generated for the EbiTrack * ( * ):IERR channel. This is a digital channel which, when true / up, signifies that the EbiTrack Receiver device is an error state.

The playback tab for the EbiTrack 400 Receiver Asset shows a graph of the alarm thresholds and the current / most recent values received from all of the channels. The most recent value for IAVE is also plotted on the alarm threshold graph.

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Points Asset Playback Graphs

The capture trace, histogram and trend graphs on the Points Asset Playback tab should now always show a line for the threshold of the currently selected alarm. 

This is very useful as it shows you how close the previous traces were to triggering an alarm. Previously this wasn't guaranteed but sometimes the threshold line was shown.

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Total item counts added to list views

There is additional text at the bottom of all list views which now show the total number of items and the items that are currently in view on the page. This is based on any filters that you may have applied and can be useful for getting an idea of how many items are setup in Centrix.

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