Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Metrics User Guide - Manual (Page 154)

Chapter 4 Automated Configuration
The FactoryTalk Metrics Configuration Tool lets you enhance the
process of creating configurations of multiple work cells for use in
FactoryTalk Transaction Manager and FactoryTalk Metrics.
Depending on the configuration type selected, certain stages of the
process are automated.
With the FactoryTalk Metrics Configuration Tool you can define
the following configuration types:
• PackML UDT configuration
Data is loaded from the FactoryTalk Metrics SQL Server
database and a controller program with a data structure
specific to the PackML user-defined data type (UDT).
Use this configuration to automatically configure certain
properties of workcells using data loaded from the controller
program with workcell properties from the SQL Server
database, and enhance them with additional data.
• FTM UDT configuration
Data is loaded from the FactoryTalk Metrics SQL Server
database with properties specific to the FTM UDT.
Use this configuration to manually modify certain properties
of the workcell data loaded from the SQL Server database that
are related to a given control connector.
To create a configuration, perform the following steps:
1. Select the configuration type and load workcell data (page
155).
Select the type of the configuration you want to create, and
load workcells from the FactoryTalk Metrics SQL Server
database (or a controller).
2. Define your FactoryTalk Transaction Manager configuration
(page 157).
Creating FactoryTalk
Transaction Manager and
FactoryTalk Metrics
Configurations
Configuration Types
Configuration Flow
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