Ignition EAM Module: Enterprise Control In One Place

The Enterprise Administration Module (EAM) provides a secure and intuitive way to manage multiple Ignition installations from a single location. While the module is ideal for enterprise systems across vast geographical distances, even companies with a single plant floor can benefit from the EAM’s ability to centrally synchronize projects, monitor performance, as well as automate backup and recovery.Download your free trial of Ignition to try out the EAM Module.

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Travis Cox: The EAM Module, or Enterprise Administration Module, provides a secure and intuitive way to manage many Ignition installations from one location. It is ideal for large enterprises that deploy multiple Ignition gateways across vast geographical distances, but even companies with a few Ignition gateways on a single plant floor can benefit from its ability to synchronize projects, monitor performance, and automate backup and recovery, all from a central location. The EAM Module adds the ability to define an Ignition gateway, either as an EAM controller or an EAM agent, directly from the web interface. The EAM Module is built on a high-performance, high-security communication network that facilitates simultaneous access to multiple gateways without causing firewall issues, called the Gateway Network.

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Travis Cox: An EAM controller manages or controls all the EAM agents connected in the network. The controller is responsible for assigning tasks, as well as monitoring each agent. EAM agents report to a single controller. They send health and diagnostic data and perform all the assigned tasks. In the controller gateway, the EAM Module provides health indicators for agent gateways and alarms for impending lifecycle events, such as agent gateway failure, memory usage notifications, warnings, and error events. System tags are created on the controller for each agent, allowing you to build EAM monitoring clients, set alarms and individual tags, and many other tag-related operations.

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Travis Cox: The EAM module allows a controller to execute a variety of tasks, on demand or through a schedule, against remote agent gateways, and that includes assigning, updating, activating, and unactivating licenses from a central location, enabling automated backup and recovery for all gateways through a gateway backup archive for disaster recovery, deploying new and updated Ignition modules, designing tags, resources, and projects centrally and sending them out to the agent gateways to synchronize or deploy new configuration, restarting agent gateways, and performing remote Ignition upgrades to keep all of your Ignition servers up to date without having to touch each server.

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Travis Cox: When defining a schedule for your tasks, you can either execute on demand, once at a specific time, on a timer, or through a chron-style schedule that is extremely flexible. You can also deploy tags to agents directly from the tag browser in the Ignition designer, especially important for deploying new tags built in a development environment. The EAM Module provides scripting functions for advanced use cases to query agent status and history and execute tasks. To try out the EAM Module, download your free trial of Ignition today.