To transfer files between assets and the Axeda® Platform using this application, you create a package for an asset model and then create a deployment for that package.
Access to this application and its components is controlled by the same user/group security as all other Axeda® Connected Product Management Applications. To create, view, modify, publish, deploy, and delete packages, users must be logged in as users who are members of Axeda® Platform that have been granted the appropriate permissions to packages and to the models/assets selected for those packages. Similarly, in the Axeda® Configuration application, you must be logged in as a user with permissions to a package or as the creator of a package to see the name of the package when creating a Package Action.
The Software Management application enables Platform administrators to upgrade the software versions on the various assets that the Axeda Platform is monitoring. More specifically, it enables them to download a new version of software, whether that software is the operating system, an Axeda® Gateway or Connector Agent running on the asset, or a custom application. As part of the package configuration, you can ensure that the Agent backs up the old version of software before it copies the files for the new one.
Assets running Axeda Agents can upload log files to the Axeda Platform. Alternatively, administrators can create Upload Requests for assets and view the uploaded files from this application. From the Configuration application, you can configure Upload actions that will provide similar functionality. Whether configuring uploads in this application, the Configuration application, or in the Agent project, administrators can choose to keep the files on the asset or delete them after an upload.
The Configuration application also provides a Download action, which is similar to the Download instruction that you can select for a package. This action and its corresponding instruction enable you to send files to your assets.
A package consists of general information (header), dependencies (conditions), and instructions. Not all features of packages are supported by all Axeda Agents (for example, IDM Agents and AWP agents support only file upload and file download instructions). Packages are created, edited, published, deployed, and deleted using the Software Management application; they are executed by Axeda Agents at the assets.
To upgrade software or run routine maintenance on an asset running an Axeda Gateway or Axeda Connector agent, you can create a package and then deploy the package to assets defined in the Platform).
To retrieve files of accumulated data or alarms or log files from an asset, you create an Upload Request. Before you can create a package or upload request, you need to ensure that you have fulfilled certain pre-requisites.
See About Axeda® Software Management for more information about using Axeda Software Management to remotely upgrade your systems, transfer files between the server and remote assets, and more.