How IntraVUE and the Network Health Monitor Share Data
An animated look at the data path: IntraVUE scans the plant network into its database, and the Network Health Monitor analyzes that data to raise alarms.
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Everything starts with the network — the switches and devices on your plant floor.
IntraVUE works by scanning that network, collecting data from every device it finds and calculating the network topology.
It stores everything it collects in its own database.
When a user wants to look at their network, they open a browser. The browser calls the IntraVUE API, which reads the database and presents the information.
The Network Health Monitor, NHM, works alongside IntraVUE. It uses that same IntraVUE API and some other code to pull data from the IntraVUE database.
As that data comes in, the NHM runs real-time analysis on it — deciding what matters, and raising alarms or warnings if needed. The results go into the NHM extended database and sometimes email.
The NHM continues analysis and looking for issues.
The NHM user sees all of it the same way as IntraVUE: a browser, calling the NHM API, which delivers the information from the database.