User's Manual

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Database Record Type Item Comment
Notification type record.
Typically there’ll be one of these
for every notification destination/
destination type. E.g., one for each
pager that could be notified that an
alarm has arrived.
Notification type
Device specific data (e.g.,
PIN number for a pager,
display device for on
screen notification)
Logging Keeps track of interesting events
that happen in the system. This
includes but is not restricted to
message transmissions and
receptions.
Time event was logged
Event type
Auxiliary information
The design of this
database is not likely to
be one monolithic table,
as the “auxiliary
information” may be
used to do lookups in
other tables.
Authorized users Keeps track of authorized user
names, passwords and authorized
hosts.
Authorized
external data
distribution
targets.
Keeps track of other ENICS
servers to which data may be
distributed.
Extern data
distribution meter
configuration
table
Keeps track of what alarms and
status are available to an external
utility and what alarms may be
configured.
External data
distribution target
transaction log
Keeps track of the transactions
performed by an external utility
(e.g., number meter reads) for
billing purposes.
Meter utility id
Transaction type
Number transactions
Field Service
Application
Database
Keeps track of work orders that
have been generated or uploaded
Service order number
Installer
Open/close dates
IMU information
Customer information
IMU location information
Time stamps for as
found/as left changes
Application
Configuration
Database
Keeps track of user settable
options for the various applications
(possibly on a per user basis,
where that makes sense).
Application Name
User name
It may make sense to
keep this data in the NT
registry on the server.
However the interface
the applets and
applications see should
be through a servant.