New Operations Site

Discussed creation of a site comparable to CalAmp's PULS today with Cyntrx and Geometris management. (http://www.calamp.com/products/puls). This application primarily manages device firmware and configuration updates.

Here is a summary of the functionality we covered:

Notional Names

• DCM - device configuration manager
• Quartermaster
• CODE - Configuration Oversight Distribution and Enforcement

Configuration Server

• public ip server that listens for heartbeat and diagnostic messages from devices;
• bridge from Geometris network to push in Geometris SIMs into same server backlog
• per customer path to push commands to devices; defaults to using Geometris network
• respond with update commands based on device configuration vs desired

Web Site

• Multi-Tenant (customer only sees their own data)
• User access, invitation of users, etc
• Configuration of 
• • Notification groups
  • Alert triage user

Device 

• • column customization
  • • by user, with persisted config
  • bulk tag / untag     
  • PULS advanced scheme plus:
  • Auto tagging: 
  • • out of contact
    • gps problem
    • bluetooth problem
    • canbus problem
  • VIN, vehicle lookup
  • extended network information
  • configuration state
  • historic notes

Configuration Library

• • Configuration Package
  • • Firmware files (from standard set provided by Geometris)
    • Configuration file (customer specific)
    • Author
    • Notes
    • Tags
    • Enable / Disable

Deployment

• • By query
  • By manual list of serial numbers or iccids
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Configuration Audit Trail

• • Record of configuration and firmware update actions 
  • • Types effected (config, firmware, supervisor, bluetooth)
    • Effected serial numbers,
    • firmware file version,
    • configuration versions,
    • tags used
    • enacting user
    • date and time
    • Per device previous configuration versions, firmware versions
  • Searchable filterable by all above items
  • Into html report

Device Diagnostics

• • Toggle Device diagnostics spotlight
  • • Regular Diagnostics polling
    • Save to diagnostics history
    • Automatic expiration
  • bluetooth connections history

Alerts and Notifications

• • Device(s) have specified tags added 
  • • Including auto tags for problems
    • user defined tags

Reports

• • device reporting history including configuration info
  • Devices by tags
  • Deployments
  • Audit trails
  • New configuration packets

Purchase Order Requests

• • purchase details, desired tagging
  • device record creation
  • email purchase data to Geometris

Configuration Desktop Application

• File browsing preview
• Edit Configuration details 
• Validate configuration sanity
• Version numbers as first class property
• Tags as first class property
• Upload directly from the tool

API

• Extend Skyonics API to receive purchase orders to tag devices and put into configuration website
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• Retrieve devices by criteria
• tag / untag
• apply configuration package
• upload configuration
• retrieve configurations
• customer purchase order API

Application Deployment

• Listener hosted on a public IP endpoint on the skyonics worker
• Website and API on the skyonics website

PULS screenshots: