Litmus Edge Manager enables management of all Litmus Edge devices running on physical gateways, PCs, or VMs, and hierarchies are defined for logical device groupings. At the highest level, a project is defined as a logical representation of a collection of edge devices, including a factory running 50 edge devices, for example.
The following is the Dashboard view within Litmus Edge Manager.
Figure 27. Litmus Edge Manager Dashboard
The Dashboard provides details on the current devices online and total devices, messages, incidents, and alerts. There are multiple features within Litmus Edge Manager, including:
- Licenses, where licenses can be applied and maintained for Litmus Edge and Edge Manager.
- Sites dashboard, which is like projects in that it allows logical grouping of devices. For example, a project can be used to manage the Litmus Edge platform at a global scale, and a site can then be used to represent each location or factory.
- Devices dashboard, which shows all current Edge devices, which can be fully managed from here.
- Templates dashboard, which manages templates, a specific configuration that is a captured from a Litmus Edge device to then be deployed across multiple devices. Within a template, specific settings for connectors, flows, and analytics are defined for a given use case.
- Applications dashboard, used to centrally configure, manage, and update applications on the Litmus Edge devices.
- Remote Access dashboard, where all remote access settings for the Litmus Edge devices are centrally managed.
- Software Update dashboard, which allows deployed versions of Litmus Edge to be centrally managed.
- Events, Incidents, Alerts dashboards, where all events and triggered incidents from alerts are viewed. This is a centralized place for troubleshooting issues across the entire Litmus environment.
- Marketplace Catalog, where specific application containers are hosted and configured for deployment to Litmus Edge devices.
The following is an overview of Litmus Edge Manager’s capabilities for manufacturing edge.
Figure 28. Managing at scale with Litmus Edge Manager
Further information about the Litmus platform can be found within the DVD for Manufacturing Edge - Design Guide with Litmus.