Database Overview

The Database panel provides similar functionality to the iFIX Database Manager, but in a completely different interface: a web one. That interface that should be natively intuitive to those familiar with web-based grid objects. The Database in Configuration Hub has off-line storage where you do your work.

Click on the Database panel to connect to the database running on your iFIX SCADA node. All the tags appear into the off-line database. Interact with your iFIX tags in a web container where you can easily sort, filter, and interact with your iFIX tags.

After you are finished, you can Publish your changes to the running iFIX node. A filterable status column in the database shows the publish status of each tag. A log file is generated every time you Publish providing information about the operation.

Note: iFIX supports up to 65534 tags per block type depending on the composition of the database in relation to available contiguous shared memory and process memory space.

The currently active iFIX database is what will show in Configuration Hub and is what will receive all operations. This is true regardless of how many users are connected to and configuring the same database. Changes to the database, both published and unpublished, are shared across users and browser sessions.

Note: Making database updates concurrently using both Configuration Hub and the iFIX Database Manager may result in unexpected behavior.

Refer to the following sections for more information about the iFIX Database panel: