Smart Stations

Overview

A Smart Station represents a workstation, physical or virtual, on which the Buddy is deployed. Smart Station authorizes the connection between the Buddy and the Control Room.

The Smart Stations page enables you to provision and manage Smart Station entities. The purpose of the Smart Station is to allow you to connect the Buddy to the Control Room on one workstation only. The name of this Smart Station should be the same as that of that standard machine. At a given time, the Buddy can use only one smart station.

Permissions

To access and perform operations on the Smart Stations page, you need to have appropriate permissions for this entity.

Permission	Description
View	View all Smart Stations and their details
Edit	Edit Smart Station details
Create	Create or register a Smart Station
Delete	Delete a Smart Station

Provisioning Smart Station

You can provision a new Smart Station from the Smart Stations page by following the steps provided below:

• Click on Toolbar-Menu > New Smart Station button
• Type in the exact name of the workstation to provision

Note: You can follow one of the ways to get the name of the workstation

1. Open Command Prompt and type hostname.
2. From Control Panel > System and Security > System.

• Type in a description for your smart station in the Description field
• Copy the Key generated by clicking on button and save it for future usage.

Note: This Key needs to be provided to the Smart Station agent running on the configured workstation for connecting to the Control Room

• Select the logging level for your smart station.
• Click on the Add button to provision this smart station

Note: You can control the logging level of your Smart Station from the Control Room by editing your Smart Station entry.

Logging Levels  

Logging levels determine the type and severity of messages recorded in the logs. The levels are ordered from highest to lowest severity, meaning that if you select a lower level in the list, it will include logs from all the above levels.  

Logging Level	Details
FATAL	Logs only fatal error messages. After a fatal error, the application usually terminates.
ERROR	Logs error messages. Selecting this level also logs FATAL messages.
WARN	Logs warnings that do not appear to the user but may indicate potential issues. Includes ERROR and FATAL logs.
INFO	Logs informational messages about application events and status updates. Includes WARN, ERROR, and FATAL logs.
DEBUG	Logs less detailed debugging messages that help track the application's flow. Includes INFO, WARN, ERROR, and FATAL logs.
TRACE	Logs very detailed debugging messages, often at high frequency and volume. This level captures all logs, including DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, and FATAL messages.

Deleting a Smart Station

You can delete an existing smart station by clicking on  Context-Menu > Delete option.

note

You can delete a Smart Station only when there are no Buddies associated with it