System Administration Nodes

The System Administration workbench is only visible to users with standalone hosted FDM Tools Systems or FDM Systems that are hosted on-premises.

Node

Description

System 

Business Units

Lets you set up your organization’s business units and define their properties. In this node you can also configure two of FDM’s most useful and time-saving features for each business unit—the meter access program and the audit engine.

Languages

Lets you enable the languages you want to make available to users of the FDM server client software from among the languages supported by the current FDM version.

Import/Export Packages

Lets you add, enable, and disable SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages that the system executes during imports and exports.

Mobile Devices

Lets you view all mobile devices registered in FDM, as well as the business unit to which each is registered. Lets you update the FDM mobile application on your handheld and laptop meter data collection devices. You can install a new version of the application on all of your mobile devices or only on selected ones.

Provisioning Packages

Lets you upload, enable, disable, and remove FDM mobile application provisioning packages on the server and make them available to your business units.

Reason Codes 

Scheduled Tasks

Lets you enable, disable, and configure FDM’s scheduled tasks for use with your system.

System Settings

Lets you view and modify FDM system settings.

Standard Filters

Lets you create, modify, and delete standard list filters for FDM lists and lets you export and import standard filter packages.

User Identities

Lets you relate your users’ Windows accounts on the FDM server or their Active Directory accounts to their FDM user identities, which in turn gives them access to the FDM software for your system.

Workflows

Lets you upload workflows to the FDM server, enable and disable them, and send them to your business units.

Meter/Endpoint Configuration 

Device Configurations

Lets you enable the endpoint/meter/register configurations used by your organization to be included in work orders sent to your business units’ mobile devices.

Network Security Keys

Lets you set up your system’s network security keys, for use by mobile devices when communicating with Itron OpenWay modules.

This node appears only if you enable one or more devices in the Device Configurations view that use network security keys.

Utility IDs

Lets you set up your Itron-assigned utility IDs in FDM.

This node appears only if you enable one or more devices in the Device Configurations view that use utility IDs.

Wakeup Tones

Lets you enable and disable endpoint wakeup tones for use by your business units

This node appears only if you enable one or more endpoints in the Device Configurations view that use wakeup tones.

Security

(Appears only in systems that have enabled endpoint configurations that support Itron ChoiceConnect security).

ISM Configuration

Lets you configure one or more Itron Security Manager (ISM) servers for your FDM system, and lists each enhanced security capable device type defined in ISM and its default security level.

Notifications 

Trigger Notifications

Trigger notifications immediately notify subscribers upon the success or failure of critical file imports and exports.