Oracle Utilities Network Management System Version 2.6.0.0 provides many significant enhancements around SCADA. The main enhancements are described below.

This feature adds additional functionality to the alarm display:

This feature adds the ability to bulk import configuration information for IEDs/RTUs with their points and device linkage, where applicable, and the export of an individual IED/RTU and its points.

This feature adds the ability for testing of the connectivity and the functionality of a device before it is placed into service for monitoring and control. The user's machine will be placed in a safe environment for testing of communications and switching, leaving other users free to monitor and control the rest of the network.

This feature adds support for additional quality markers required for SCADA allowing devices to be shown as In Transit or that are in error. This includes per-phase support for un-ganged switching.

This feature enhances the database to provide the ability for storing time series data to support new and future trending requirements. The operational historian is designed to be a short-term historian to only save data needed for operational actions and will initially store SCADA values and values that are calculated from them.

To visualize the trends, the trend window has been updated to support the displaying of two different types of measurements as well as providing real-time trend updates.

This feature adds the ability to define a stale control request ensuring controls that have been delayed for longer than a configurable time, for any reason, will not be sent to the field device.

This feature adds a statistics banner to the top of the IED and FEP Monitor screens providing users with the ability to quickly see the current status of IEDs and FEPs such as which are off scan or failed.

This feature improves the notifications from telecontrol failures to provide a warning dialog to the user that initiated the control that it has failed.

This feature adds the ability to automatically detect jittering devices or analogs and pause any alarming with the device whilst it is in this state. By jittering, a device, usually faulty, is changing state rapidly and reporting these changes through the SCADA system. Once the device has been fixed, or if the cause of the jittering is removed, it also can be identified automatically and placed in a Recovering state before finally being marked as back in service if no further changes are reported after a period of time.