Maintaining Devices

You use the Device portal to display and maintain devices.

Refer to About Meters , About Items, and About Communication Components for additional information about specific types of devices.

You can access the portal by selecting Menu, then Device, then Device. You are brought to a query portal with options for searching. Once your record has been selected you are brought to the maintenance portal to view and maintain the selected record.

The Device portal includes the following zones:

• Device: defines the basic attributes of the device
• Device Configuration List: lists the device configurations for the device
• Device Attachments: lists attachments related to the device
• Device Activities: lists activities related to the device in date descending order
• Device Exceptions: lists the first 50 VEE exceptions for all measuring components for the device, sorted by the exception creation date in descending order
• Device Events: lists the most recent device events associated to the device in descending order
• Device Characteristics: displays characteristics defined for the device. To add device characteristics, click the Edit link in the zone title bar.
  Note: Only characteristics of types defined for the device’s type in the Valid Device Characteristic Types zone on the Device Type portal can be defined for the device.
• Device Entity Groups: This zone lists the Entity Groups to assigned to the device. To add an entity group to the device, click Add Entity Group to Device. A dialog opens where you can select the entity group.