Hierarchy Manager

Depending on the number of devices you are currently monitoring, organizing the data coming from those devices can be a difficult task. Hierarchy Manager allows you to organize the devices in EcoStruxure™ Power Monitoring Expert into recognizable views by defining their relationships as parts of a system model. Once the model has been created, energy data associated with the hierarchy can be grouped, aggregated, and used by other components of Power Monitoring Expert.

The Hierarchy Manager views are intended to represent the real world electrical, physical, and business characteristics of your organization. The items contained in a view, and how those items relate to each other are specified using a template approach. There are several example templates included in the product to help you create the views applicable to your organization. One of these templates is configured when Power Monitoring Expert is first installed.

Open the Hierarchy Manager from Settings > System > Hierarchies in the Web Applications banner. You can also open Hierarchy Manager from the Tools > Web Tools menu in the Management Console.

The following topics provide specific information regarding the features and use of the Hierarchy Manager application:

• Hierarchy templates
  • Nodes
  • Node properties
  • Common elements of hierarchy templates
• Creating a hierarchy
• Creating an apportioned meter
• Creating a virtual meter
• Dynamic hierarchy
• Meter apportionment
• Virtual meter
• Using hierarchies in other applications

After you have configured the views of the hierarchy structure, you can use them in different areas of Power Monitoring Expert.

NOTE: Before using Hierarchy Manager, ensure that devices, logical devices, or managed circuits have been added to Power Monitoring Expert through the Management Console component.