Remote Monitoring of Projects

Within Clarity, the Clarity Monitoring Service (which runs on the Clarity Host machine) is responsible for monitoring projects - including scanning and caching the models that exist within projects. The models that you see on the Project Home and Task Target pages are retrieved from that cache.

 

However - there can be exceptional/extraordinary cases where a given Clarity project cannot be monitored from the Clarity Host Machine, including:

 

• Security reasons (if the Clarity Service Account cannot be given access to a given folder)
• Windows/Networking regions (the Clarity Project folder location is only available on a remote VPN)
• Network Performance Reasons (the Clarity Project folder is an extensive folder structure and resides on a remote network file share that has enough latency that it is problematic to scan and monitor it from the Clarity Host machine).
• ProjectWise Federated Identity (currently can only run in an interactive windows environment, not a Windows Service, as the Clarity Monitoring Service runs as).

To address these extraordinary cases, IMAGINiT has developed the Clarity Remote Monitoring Service. It is software that can be requested from the IMAGINiT support department, and deployed at one or more remote locations, running on whatever Windows environment that it must be run on - either as a Windows Service or as an interactive application.

 

The Remote Monitoring Application can set up new projects, and mark them as "Remotely Monitored" - so that the host will not attempt to monitor them.

 

Limitations

• The Remote Monitoring Application currently supports only:
  • - Network-Folder-based projects
  • - ProjectWise-based projects
• The Remote Monitoring Application will STILL require network access to the Clarity database by some kind of mechanism.
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