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Metasys Network DiagramFigure 2: Metasys NetworkApplicationsUse an ADS in the following situations: When the number of network engines becomes larger than a single network engine canhandle efficiently as Site Director. The long-term historical data storage needs exceed the capacity of a typical network engine. The number of simultaneous users logging on to SMP or Metasys UI exceeds the capacity ofa single network engine. The ADS supports up to five simultaneous users, and up to 10 to 14SNx/NxE engines. Refer to the Metasys System Configuration Guide (LIT-12011832).Use an ADX when any of the following criteria apply: The Metasys Advanced Reporting System or the Metasys for Validated Environments (MVE),Extended Architecture application is required. You need to support more than five simultaneous users logging on to SMP or Metasys UI. TheADX supports up to 10, 25, 50, or 100 users, and up to 1,000 SNx/NxE engines. Refer to theMetasys System Configuration Guide (LIT-12011832). Any of your data storage or access requirements is not met by an ADS.To further help you decide whether an ADS or ADX is right for your facility, consider their respectivedata storage and data access capabilities.User experienceThe Metasys system user interface is a portal into a site that you can to fit the needs of all potentialsystem users. The UI can evolve and scale to match the needs of any single facility or campus ofmultiple buildings. The UI experience includes the Site Management Portal UI and the mobileoptimized Metasys UI.Note: Site Management Portal (SMP) requires a license at Release 12.0. The license is availablefor existing sites only.Application and Data Server (ADS) and Extended Application and Data Server (ADX) Product Bulletin5

Metasys UIThe Metasys UI is an HTML5-compliant web interface that provides device-agnostic access toMetasys from smartphones, tablets, and computers. The Metasys UI is an intuitive interfacethat reduces learning time, maximizes productivity of operators, and provides a seamless userexperience no matter what type of client device is used to access the system. The client devicedoes not require any additional software installation—no Java , Microsoft Silverlight , Adobe ,Flash or any other software from an online app store. The Metasys UI is included with any Metasysserver: ADS, ADX (unified and split), OAS, and ADS-Lite.Note: At Release 12.0, an NAE85/LCS85 can act as a Site Director only. Do not upgrade anychild NAE85/LCS85 to 12.0.Note: You must license the server software to log on to the Metasys UI.Dashboards and widgetsA dashboard organizes data in the Metasys UI to help you see a complete picture of what ishappening in a space, with a piece of equipment, or within a system such as a central plant.Within each dashboard, widgets provide specific operator interaction features. You can customizedashboards to suit specific needs by allowing the selection of viewable widgets, widget order, andwidget appearance, as well as assign by client device type.The Space Dashboard provides a cohesive summary of the selected space, including theequipment that serves the space and potential problem areas in the space. The Space Dashboardincludes the following widgets: Graphics provide a visual representation of the selected space, which you can use toquickly check the status of that space, uncover unusual system conditions, make relationalcomparisons between nearby spaces at-a-glance, and issue commands to improveperformance or restore order. The Graphics widget displays digital representations ofequipment or systems, with graphical symbols and animations created using the GraphicsManager. Equipment Serving Space identifies the equipment serving the selected space and thenprovides details about that equipment, including other equipment or systems that may beaffecting that piece of equipment. Potential Problem Areas provides a single display showing all items that are in alarm,warning, overridden, out of service, and offline statuses within a space. This display alsoenables you to filter and view data that is important to them. you can use the PotentialProblem Areas widget as a daily punch list to manage buildings more efficiently.Note: For an OAS, you require the Metasys Potential Problem Areas license to accessPotential Problem Areas Points. You require the Metasys Fault Detection and theMetasys Fault Triage licenses to access both Fault Detection and Fault Triage. You canuse Fault Detection without a Fault Triage license, but you require both licenses for FaultDetection and Fault Triage to use Fault Triage. 6Equipment Summary is a table view that lists all similar equipment that directly servesthe selected space, and any downstream spaces. The Equipment Summary shows the mostimportant information for each equipment and provides links to the equipment for evenmore detailed information. You can define which data to include in an Equipment Summarywith the new custom columns selection feature.Application and Data Server (ADS) and Extended Application and Data Server (ADX) Product Bulletin

Schedule widget lists all schedules affecting the selected space, and displays if the schedulesare enabled or disabled. You can then select, view, and edit specific schedules associated witha space. The Schedule widget summarizes how a space is affected by a scheduling strategyso that you can understand the complete picture. The Schedule widget also provides a way toview effective schedule information for a specific date in the future, so that you can ensure itis set up correctly. Furthermore, use the bulk scheduling feature to add exceptions to severalschedules at once and to assign weekly schedules in bulk.From Release 11.0, the Space Dashboard also supports the Trend widget. For details aboutthe Trend widget see the section below.The Equipment Dashboard provides a cohesive summary of a selected piece of equipment. Thewidgets shown in the Equipment Dashboard include the following: Graphics provide a visual representation of the selected space. You can quickly check thestatus of that space, uncover unusual system conditions, make relational comparisonsbetween nearby spaces at-a-glance, and issue commands to improve performance or restoreorder. The Graphics widget displays digital representations of equipment or systems, withgraphical symbols and animations created using the Graphics Manager. Trend widget is a chart that shows up to ten points of historical data for a single piece ofequipment at the same time. Use this widget to view historical equipment data, compareperformance changes over time, and easily create PDF or CSV reports. You can identifypatterns in equipment operation, including performance outliers using an intuitivecandlestick chart that displays min, max, and averages. From Release 11.0, you can also selectan un-trended point, and see its real-time present value plotted on a Trend chart. This featureis called Live trending. In addition, the Trend feature is enhanced from Release 11.0 to includethe ability to choose to view raw or aggregated data, regardless of duration. Furthermore,the sample limit is increased to 50,000 samples and the individual trend sample limit wasremoved. This provides you with more visibility into historical data. Equipment Activity enables you to view alarm activity, network controller offline events,user changes, and annotations made within a date range of up to one year within the lastfive years for the selected piece of equipment. This widget enables you to easily see andunderstand the correlation between disparate activities occurring within the system. Equipment Relationships identifies all relationships a piece of equipment has with otherequipment, spaces, and network field controllers. Equipment Data lists all points and their real-time values for the selected piece ofequipment, providing you with detailed information about the operational status of theequipment. Schedule widget lists all schedules affecting the selected equipment, and displays ifthe schedules are enabled or disabled. You can select, view, and edit specific schedulesassociated with a piece of equipment. The Schedule widget summarizes how a schedulingstrategy affects the equipment so that you can understand the complete picture. TheSchedule widget also provides a way to view effective schedule information for a specific datein the future, so that you can ensure it is set up correctly. Furthermore, the bulk schedulingfeature allows you to add exceptions to several schedules at once and to assign weeklyschedules in bulk.Application and Data Server (ADS) and Extended Application and Data Server (ADX) Product Bulletin7

Additional Metasys UI features are available that are not specifically located in the Space orEquipment Dashboard, including: Alarm Manager enables you to view and take action on Metasys system alarms. The AlarmManager rolls up occurrences of alarms to help you prioritize the most important alarmsand manage all occurrences of alarms in one operation. The Alarm Manager also displays anAlarm Summary that indicates how well the alarms are being managed. The Alarm Manageris accessible through the Metasys UI and full screen view, with a separate URL, well-suitedfor 24/7 operations centers. Spaces and equipment do not need to be configured for usersto take advantage of the Alarm Manager. You can navigate directly from the Alarm Managerto the Building Network through a link, without having to manually search the network treeafter finding the root cause of an alarm. Alarm Monitor provides a similar view as the Alarm Manager, but does not require the userto log into the Metasys system. The Alarm Monitor is well-suited for the types of users whodo not require or do not have authorization for full Metasys access, but who are responsiblefor viewing alarms from multiple integrated building systems. Spaces and equipment do notneed to be configured for users to take advantage of the Alarm Monitor. Custom Trend Viewer is a chart showing up to ten points of historical data from multiplepieces of equipment at the same time. Use this widget to see and compare performancechanges over time. You can identify patterns in equipment operation, including performanceoutliers using an intuitive candlestick chart that displays min, max, and averages. The Trend Study Manager is the single point of entry for creating and editing Metasys UItrend studies. With this feature, you can easily access custom trends configured in a previousMetasys UI session, and also view and manage space and equipment associations with allsupported trend studies. Cyber Health dashboard provides a Metasys administrator with a centralized view ofpotential security-related issues or system issues which are detectable by a Metasys Server,but which may not surface as part of general system alarms. You can also see out-of-datesoftware at one glance. The information is grouped into critical issues, potential risks, andinformational items. User Management facilitates the creation and management of users and their roles,category-based permissions, and privileges directly in Metasys UI, without the need to installsoftware on client machines. You can create and manage user details for Active Directory, andMetasys local users. This feature is also available in the SMP, but over time it will be availablein Metasys UI only. System Activity provides a combined view of Audits and Alarms, as well as disparate views ofAudits or Alarms for authorized users. Authorized users can filter, export, and act on Auditsand Alarms. Device Pairing provides you with the ability to pair supported engines to the Metasys serverfor additional security.BACnet/SC Management enables you to manage BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC)certificates. BACnet/SC is a secure, encrypted datalink layer that is specifically designed tomeet the requirements, policies, and constraints of IP infrastructures.Certain widgets are connected with Advanced Search and Reporting, which you can use to quicklycreate even more powerful reports by leveraging the power of the dashboard with the AdvancedSearch feature. The widgets connected with Advanced Search include the Equipment Summarywidget, Equipment Serving Space widget, Equipment Data widget, Graphics widget, and theSummary View widget. See also Advanced Search and Reporting. 8Application and Data Server (ADS) and Extended Application and Data Server (ADX) Product Bulletin

Intuitive navigationThe Metasys UI provides the following methods for operators to find information easily and quicklyabout their system: Spaces Tree is a set of links to each Space Dashboard. These links are intuitively organized bythe site's physical hierarchy. Building Network Tree provides access to objects using an alternative navigation tree to theSpaces tree. Bookmarking provides a way for operators to quickly access favorite or most-frequentlyvisited dashboards simply by bookmarking each location in the browser. Search Bar enables operators to quickly access specific dashboards by entering the first fewletters of the name of the space or equipment. Views Tree provides access to objects using an alternative navigation tree to the Spaces Tree. Tailored Summaries are supported within Views to display user-defined tables of systemdata.Fault Detection and Fault TriageFault Detection Fault Detection is a licensed add-on feature to the Metasys Server software products,including ADS, ADX, and OAS.Note: At a minimum, you require 8 GB of RAM and four virtual cores to support theFault Detection and Fault Triage features on an OAS. This feature identifies building system-related faults and lists them in order of severity,whereby it leverages Johnson Controls-defined rules and a semantic data model to easeconfiguration. Fault Detection helps operators identify issues of building systems that are not operatingcorrectly, prevent energy waste, and avoid comfort complaints. The feature is delivered in away that minimizes configuration workflows.Fault Triage Fault Triage is a licensed add-on feature to Fault Detection and the Metasys Serversoftware products, including ADS, ADX, and OAS.Note: At a minimum, you require 8 GB of RAM and four virtual cores to support theFault Detection and Fault Triage features on an OAS. Fault Triage improves the fault list order by adding fault duration and occurrence to thesorting logic, which improves driving the biggest problems to the top of the list. Fault Triage leverages the Johnson Controls Field Support Knowledge Database to suggestpossible causes, their likelihood, and appropriate corrective actions. The feature captures corrective action activity that includes not tried, tried, and solvedissues with the ability to add notes. In addition, Fault Triage offers automatically generated, multi-stacked charting of faultdata for each fault occurrence. Fault Triage provides an assisted experience for less experienced HVAC controlstechnicians.Application and Data Server (ADS) and Extended Application and Data Server (ADX) Product Bulletin9

Note: No significant feature additions were made to Fault Detection and Fault Triage atRelease 12.0. The Metasys Fault Detection license and Metasys Fault Triage license remainat 11.x and continue to work at 12.x.The functionalities of Fault Triage and Fault Detection are documented in detail in the PotentialProblem Areas widget section of Metasys UI Help (LIT-12011953).Advanced Search and ReportingThe Advanced Search and Reporting feature brings powerful insights to all Metasys users byproviding an intuitive and easy method to gather and analyze data. You can quickly search for dataacross the Building Network tree or by spaces or equipment. Using a series of filters, that includeswildcards, you can refine your search results. For example, you can search for all zone temperaturepoints in a specific space.With the Advanced Search results, you can do the following: Create reports that shows historical activity, alarms, audits, and trend data based on adefined time range, or create reports that shows the present values of selected objects. Thisprovides Metasys administrators with real-time information without requiring a log in. Export report data to CSV or PDF file formats on an ad hoc basis or by scheduling a report. Issue bulk commands to selected points and bulk modify multiple objects or multipleattributes on a single object. Schedule the email delivery of reports to up to 10 specified recipients. Report templates canbe saved and be executed on-demand in the future. Filter an Advanced Search to only include specific Equipment Definition short names. Launch directly from certain widgets into a pre-populated Advanced Search. The filters arepopulated based on the equipment, space, and object information included in the widget.Users can launch Advanced Search from the following widgets:- Equipment summary widget- Equipment serving Space widget- Equipment data widget- Graphics widget- Summary view widgetImportant: You do not need to configure spaces and equipment for users to take advantageof the Advanced Search and Reporting feature. Advanced Search is available on computer andtablet platforms, but it is not available on phone platforms. Additionally, the Reporting, BulkCommanding, and Bulk Modifying features of Advanced Search are not available on tablet orphone platforms.From Release 12.0, you can use the Advanced Search and Reporting feature to run Base Reports.The reports show you a snapshot view of the current exception situations and summary data in theentire site or selected engines of the site, and locate points that might need attention.The following reports are available: Alarm: Lists all items with a non-Normal alarm state in the site or selected devices. Offline: Lists all items whose offline state is True in the site or selected devices. Disabled: Lists all items whose Enabled attribute value is set to False in the site or selecteddevices. Operator Override: Lists all items currently being written to at a command priority value of 8.10Application and Data Server (ADS) and Extended Application and Data Server (ADX) Product Bulletin

Supervisory Override: Lists all items whose Overridden attribute value is set to True. Themeaning of Overridden is dependent on the integration and point type. Trouble: Lists all items that have the Trouble attribute value set to True. Out of Service: Lists all items that have the Out of Service attribute value set to True.User ManagementThe User Manag

Application and Data Server (ADS) and Extended Application and Data Server (ADX) Product Bulletin Background . such as PowerBI and Tableau , and supports both historical data fetching and gathering information about the site and all of its child elements. Additionally, the new Metasys Monitoring and Commanding API enables reading, writing .