Explorer - Device Overview


 

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Clicking on a device in the Explorer Resource Management tree navigates users to the Device Overview page – a new page giving users several tabs to utilize based on each device capabilities.

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are located at the top left of the page. They show your current location and allow you to quickly navigate to related pages.

For devices, the breadcrumb path is displayed as Project/Asset Name > Connection Name > Device Name

  • Project/Asset Name and Connection Name are clickable and take you to their respective details pages.
  • Device Name represents the current page

A copy button is available on the right of the breadcrumb, allowing you to copy the ID of the selected device for use in search and other actions within the application.

 

Delete Device button

The delete device button is located at the top right of the page, above the tabs. This allows you to delete the currently selected device and all its associated sensors.

The same action is available via the context menu by right clicking the device in the tree and selecting Delete.

Overview

The overview tab is the first and default tab displayed to users when accessing this page. This tab contains a static dashboard which has 2 types of cards – Summary and Device Sensor Summary.

Summary card

The summary card provides device specific details:

Entity Type – the type of entity you have selected.

Device Type – the type of device you have selected – includes both raw and friendly names.

ID – the ID of the device you have selected. This field can be copied using the copy button – a useful feature when using search capabilities within the product.

Status – the status of the device you have selected.

 

Device Sensor Summary card

The device sensor summary card lists all sensors associated with the device. Each sensor is clickable and navigates you to the sensor’s respective details page.

Each sensor row in the card contains the following sensor data:

Sensor name – the name of this sensor.

Metric name – the default metric associated with this sensor

Latest observation value and Unit – latest value of this sensor along with its unit of measurement.

Last observation time – last timestamp of when this sensor received an observation.

 

Configuration

The Configuration help link can be found here:

https://bentleysystems.service-now.com/community?id=kb_article&table=kb_knowledge&sys_id=383c8fb81bfd4a90f3fc5287624bcb48&searchTerm=Devices%20Overview

 

Revision Management

The Revision Management help link can be found here:

https://bentleysystems.service-now.com/community?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0108546