Tools and Providers

The GENESIS64 Workbench Classic saves all of your tools, application providers, and settings with your projects in their project files so that you can reopen and reuse the project easily. In each project are stored:

Application providers
Database configurations such as Global Aliasing, Language Aliasing, and other SQL databases
Network services tools such as GenTray, SNMP, the FrameWorX Server, and the Security Server
Workbench Classic configuration settings that you apply to the Workbench Classic window position, styles, modifications to the design surface, layouts, and templates

A project is typically stored where the servers are running, but in actuality several servers may need to be accessed in order to run the different displays at an enterprise. As long as you have defined the servers' connections, those connections are stored with the project, too.

Centralized security allows all GENESIS64 operations to be secured, which can be adopted by OEM customers. Security Server limits access permissions to projects and plug-in, including file access to create, modify, or read only. Historical data are secured with an audit trail. It also allows you to secure OEM operations. For more information, refer to Security.

The Workbench Classic is designed for concurrent configuration by multiple development team members over the internet. It follows the optimistic concurrency model; there are no database locks. Multiple application servers and databases can be configured simultaneously. An additional ICONICS Workbench Classic Toolkit can also be used, to create plug-in from third-party and OEM content providers.

Providers in the Workbench Classic

Development and runtime modes of all installed and licensed ICONICS GENESIS64 products can be accessed and used in the Workbench Classic. The following BizViz 9.2 (and later) products are also available in the Workbench Classic: BridgeWorX and ReportWorX.

Note: Only the runtime version of the BridgeWorX and ReportWorX providers are available in the Workbench Classic64. For configuration of these products, you can use Workbench Classic32.

Note: For help using the two BizViz providers, refer to the topics provided for BridgeWorX and ReportWorX in the Unified Web Interface help.

Even though all of the providers are available in the Workbench Classic, you can pick and choose which providers appear in the Workbench Classic's Project Explorer, as shown in the figure below.

Workbench Classic Providers

Working with Services

A number of GENESIS64 components are servers or services that you can control and modify within the Workbench Classic. They include:

GenTray starts and stops any service, including ICONICS and Windows services.
FrameWorX64 Server allows configuring GenBroker, GenEvents, and web services. You can also configure the databases that support these different methods of communications.
AlarmWorX64 Server starts and stops the alarm server, as well as provides a configuration interface to configure alarms.
TrendWorX64 Server starts and stops the historical trend server, as well as provide a configuration interface to add historical trend tags.
SNMP configures and manages the SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) service that is used to discover SNMP devices and their properties over a network.
BACnet integrates BACnet communications into the GENESIS64 and GENESIS32/Workbench Classic32 product families. Common BACnet applications include HVAC controls, fire detection and alarm, lighting control, security, "smart" elevators and utility company interfaces.
Unified Data Manager (UDM) is a central location for storing expressions, subscriptions, groups, values, registers, triggers, and other data that can be used by any GENESIS64 application. The service can be started, stopped, and all of these data types and data instances can be created and modified within the UDM in the Workbench Classic.
Security Server stores accounts and policies in a database organized by users and groups. You can start, stop, modify, and create security policies from within the Security Server.
Global Aliasing System (GAS) stores variable names and their values within an SQL database so that these variables can be used throughout GENESIS64 applications. Start, stop, create, and modify global aliases using this interface.
Language Aliasing System (LAS) makes substitutions for language aliases whenever the assigned language in the Language Selector dialog box is changed.