Configuration Tool - The User Interface

The Configuration Tool Window is organized in five main display areas: The header line, the main menu tab line, the tab window, the main operation button area and the log viewer window.

The Header Line

The header line shows the program name and the version information.

The main menu item File contains the Exit item to close the program. The main menu item Help contains the two items Show Help (opens the help system of the program) and About Server Configuration Tool (shows the About dialog of the program). The button with the question mark icon in the top right corner also leads to the online help system of the driver. The right most button with the exit icon is a second way to closes the program.

The Main Tab Line

The various functions of the configuration tool are grouped and organized on individual dialogs. These dialogs can be opened (be brought into the foreground) via these tabs.

General Server information, Privacy, Integrity and Security settings.

Configuration of MTConnect MTConnect Settings Agents, Sample, Event and Enum types.

Management of Client and Server Certificates.

Trust List Management.

Configuration of the Serverr Service Logging options and Log Viewer Window for Server Service messages.

The Tab Window

In this area the tab specific dialogs are displayed.

The Main Operations Buttons

This Icon indicates the current connection status between the configuration tool and the server service.

  • The configuration tool is not connected to the server service. Possible reason: the server service is not running.
  • The server service is running and the configuration tool is connected to it.

The configuration file of the server service and thus all changes you made will be saved.

The configuration file of the server service and thus all changes you made will be saved and the server service is notified about the new configuration. The server service immediately reloads the configuration file and reinitialize its database (OPC UA namespace) based on the new configuration settings.

Terminates the configuration tool (but not the server service!).

The Log Viewer

The Log Viewer is the Window of the configuration tool. All information messages, warnings or error messages of the configuration tool are displayed in this window.