For help navigating the Room Manager Rooms page, click here.
For more information on the differences between templates and rooms with each Innomesh product, click here.
To create a new Pulse room, navigate to the Room Manager Rooms page and click on the “Add New Room” button on the top left of the page.
This will bring up a pop-up window showing available templates in which a room can be deployed under. Once the desired template has been selected, click on the “Next” button at the bottom right of the window.
Pulse rooms have a heartbeat icon next to the template name
Zone
The Zone under which you will deploy this system must now be selected. Once a zone is selected, then click “Next” in the bottom right corner.
The Parking lot is a place to store inactive rooms. The functionalities of rooms in this zone are disabled. To restore / gain their functionality they must be placed in an active zone.
Main configuration view
Once the zone has been selected, the configuration window will be presented. The elements in the configuration page are as follows.
Note the Template name is defined on the Template level, so is greyed out whilst creating a room.
A. Room Name & Room Repository Name
The ‘Friendly’ name for the room, and the name of the repository where the configuration files will be stored.
B. Options (Drop down)
This will give you two options: “Download as JSON” and “Load Room from File.”
C. Add Device
Add new device button. Clicking this will begin the process of adding a new device, which will be discussed in greater detail below.
D. In Maintenance & Disable Device
- If checked, alerts from this device will be diverted to the “Suppressed” alerts list on the Portal Hotlist. This feature can be used when a faulty device needs to physically disconnected for maintenance purposes.
- You can disable Pulse / Sight devices
E. IP Address/Hostname
The IP address or hostname of the device.
F. Edit and Delete
These allow a device to be duplicated, edited and deleted. The Edit button in particular will take users to a detailed view of the device, allowing for further customisation if required.
G. Create Room
Once Room name, Room repository name and device details have been populated, the room can be created by clicking this button.
Add/Edit Device View
The following elements or available when creating or editing a device.
A. Options (Drop down)
This will give you two options: “Download as JSON” and “Load Room from File.”
B. In Maintenance
If checked, alerts from this device will be diverted to the “Suppressed” alerts list on the Portal Hotlist. This feature can be used when a faulty device needs to physically disconnected for maintenance purposes.
C. Properties
The Properties of a device are as follows.
- Device Name
- Device Type
- Device ID
- Manufacturer
- Model
- Serial Number
D. Connection Parameters
The Connection properties for a device depend on the ‘Type’ of connection or Protocol which Pulse will monitor the device on. The three protocols in which Pulse monitors devices are ICMP, HTTP and TCP. Each has difference connection parameters which will be discussed below.
ICMP
Poll Frequency – The frequency which Pulse will poll the device, in seconds.
IP address or Hostname – The IP address or hostname of the device.
Poll Frequency – The frequency which Pulse will poll the device, in seconds.
IP address or Hostname – The IP address or hostname of the device.
TCP
Poll Frequency – The frequency which Pulse will poll the device, in seconds.
IP address or Hostname – The IP address or hostname of the device.
IP Port – The IP Port which Pulse will connect to the device on.
HTTP
Poll Frequency – The frequency which Pulse will poll the device, in seconds.
IP address or Hostname – The IP address or hostname of the device.
IP Port – The IP Port which Pulse will connect to the device on.
Username – The username of the device, if any.
Password – The password of the device, if any.
Endpoint path – The device’s endpoint path.
E. Cancel
This button allows the user to opt out of creating or editing the device.
F. Update Device
Once the device configuration has been updated, this button adds the new or updated device to the room.
Mass Deployment
To mass deploy Pulse rooms, navigate to the Rooms tab in the Room Manager webpage and click on the “Add New Room” button on the top left of the page.
Select the template under which you would like to deploy the room, and click on the Mass Deploy Button at the bottom right of the webpage.
In this view, new rooms can be added at the top right of the window, rooms can be loaded from a .csv file, download to a .csv file and finally deployed at the bottom right of the window.
It is recommended that rooms are created in the ‘Parking Lot’ zone during mass deployments, so the alerts from offline devices don’t immediately permeate to the Portal hotlist.
Download rooms to CSV
To download the current configuration to file, simply click on the “Download CSV” file button in the bottom left corner of the window.
Load rooms from CSV
Room and device information can be loaded from a CSV file, simply by uploading the file into the portal.
Select “Load CSV” in the bottom left corner of the window then drag or navigate to the file on your local device. Click “Load” to load the chosen CSV file.
The .csv file must contain 3 columns for the Room Name, Room Repo Name and the Zone name, and then once column for every Pulse device in the room. It is recommended that a .csv is downloaded first, which will show the correct format.