SMARTUNIFIER User Manual

About SMARTUNIFIER

You are new to SMARTUNIFIER?

• Learn about the SMARTUNIFIER connectivity platform

• Learn about the connectivity use cases you can address with SMARTUNIFIER

• Check out the supported connectivity endpoints and data formats

• Get started with your integration

How to integrate with SMARTUNIFIER

Each integration scenario follows the same workflow, which consists out of 5 steps:

1. Information Models - describe and visualize communication related data using hierarchical tree structures

2. Communication Channels - describe and configure the protocols needed for the scenario

3. Mappings - define when and how to exchange/transform data between Information Models

4. Device Types - define templates for Instances

5. Instances - define applications that provide the connectivity

Below you can see an example of integration scenario and the necessary steps to establish connectivity with SMARTUNIFIER:

Configuration Component Management

SMARTUNIFIER provides a comprehensive management of the configuration components:

• Group Filter

• Component Version Control

• Operations

In order to keep the SMARTUNIFIER configuration components organized take a look on how to name the configuration components.

Deployment

SMARTUNIFIER supports the deployment of Instances on several computing environments:

• Local - on the same environment the SMARTUNIFIER Manager is running on

• Docker - on containerized environments

• Agent Process - remote on any machine

• SSH - remote on Linux machine

• Fargate - on the AWS Cloud using fully managed service AWS Fargate

Learn how to operate and monitor your SMARTUNIFIER Instances.

Learn about notifications.

Learn about additional deployment options.

Administration

Learn how to:

• Integrate an Active Directory

• Backup and Restore the Repository

• Manage Communication Channel Types

• Manage Docker Java Images

• Create Deployment Endpoints

• Manage Credentials

• Manage User Accounts

• Manage Logging Configurations

• Create Alerts

• Manage Alert Channels

• Use Extensions

• Validate the Configuration Components

Getting Help

Having trouble? We would like to help!

• In case of malfunctioning SU Instances check out the Troubleshooting section

• Try the FAQ - it’s got answers to regularly asked questions

• Check out the Glossary if some terminology is not clear