A Region is a collection of stationary locations defined and maintained in the Axeda® Platform. Depending upon the needs and structure of your company, you can create regions that correspond to actual regional organizations within your organization (for example, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest, and so forth) and then group the applicable locations within the related regions. Or, you can create regions that are used simply as a way to group locations.
One region can contain multiple levels of nested regions. For example, the North America region could contain the USA region, which contains the Northeast region, which contains the Massachusetts region. In this case, the Axeda® Service Application (navigation path) would show the resulting region list as North America : USA : Northeast : Massachusetts.
If you associate a location with a region, all assets associated with that location are now associated with that region. This automatic association enables you to search the Applications by region to find associated assets. In the preceding example, all locations associated with the Massachusetts region are also associated with the Northeast, USA, and North America regions.
You can create and configure regions within the Axeda® Configuration Application. For assets that are running Axeda® Agents, you can use the Axeda® Deployment Utility to provide location information to the Platform.
For information about security for Regions, refer to Security for Objects in Axeda® Connected Product Management Applications and for information about security for these objects when Delegated Administration is enabled, refer to Security for Objects in Delegated Administration Units.
NOTE:
In a Platform with Delegated Administration enabled, the names of regions
may be displayed with prefixes. For details, refer to Names of Objects in DA Units.
Also note that
Delegated Admin visibility restrictions and privileges are NOT fully supported
for Regions. See Supported
Objects for Delegated Administration for more information.