Multi-mastering devices

The devices and Advanced Reporting and Dashboards Modules that require multi-mastering are listed here.

Devices

Power Operation cannot single-master the following device types; they must communicate with Power Operation and Power Monitoring Expert:

  • ION9000, ION7650, and PM8000 (Power Quality meters)

    • Power Monitoring Expert requires a direct connection to these devices to provide data depth in Power Quality Reports.

  • BCPMs and PM5350 (multi-channel meters)

    • Power Monitoring Expert provides Branch Circuit Reports that leverage hierarchy information.

    NOTE: Trending BCPMs and PM5350 can be reconfigured in the field. For example, instead of using channels 1 to 10, BCPMs can be reconfigured to use channels 1 to 20. This reconfiguration requires restarting the Power Operation Server.

    NOTE: BCPM historical trends should only be gathered by Power Monitoring Expert, and should be disabled in Power Operation. If you try to use the ETL to transfer branch circuit power monitor (BCPM) trend data to the Advanced Reports Server, the amount of branch circuit device data can overwhelm the ETL process.

    NOTE: Disable trends in the Power Operation profile for any branch circuit meters unless the customer would like to see real-time trending in Power Operation.

  • Any meter that you want to view using WebReach diagrams.

    • WebReach diagrams require data acquisition from Power Monitoring Expert to provide real time information.

 

Advanced Reporting and Dashboards Modules

Certain Advanced Reporting Modules require devices to be setup in both Power Operation and Power Monitoring Expert.

The following table list the modules and devices that require multi-mastering and the reason why:

Module Devices required on both servers Reason
Breaker Performance All Micrologic trip units Real-time vista diagrams leveraged by module
Energy Billing *  Any device required for billing Requires data from Hierarchy
Power Efficiency Any device used in PUE calculation VIP is used to calculate the total kW and interval energy for the PUE calculation
Power Quality Performance All devices Due to the way PQ algorithms work

NOTE: This is addition to ION9000, ION7650, PM8000, PM5350, and BCPM.

* The Energy Billing Module relies on an energy billing ETL to export Power Monitoring Expert data to be used in 3rd party billing software packages. Since the energy billing export ETL requires data from the customer hierarchy, any devices required for the ETL should be added in Power Monitoring Expert and Power Operation.