Initial Power Up

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The first time you power up your EPM device you must:

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Set up your Super User

Your Super User is a user with full access to every aspect of your system.

The minimum information required to set up your Super User is:

  • First name

  • Last name

  • Username

  • Password

Log into EPM Data Management

Using the Super User credentials you have just set up, log into EPM Data Management for the first time.

See Logging in for details.

Configure your system

The following configuration tasks can be completed in any order you require

 

Tip - Not all of the following apply to your system, if you are using this as a checklist you may want to strike out any tasks not relevant.
 

Configure Device Settings

Set up your system wide preferences

Internationalization - To set up your language preference, date and time. See Configuring Internationalization for details.

Networks - See Configuring Networks for details.

Key Management - See Configuring Key Management for details if using secure file transfer protocol (SFTP).

General Settings - See Configuring General Settings for details.

Web Servers - See Configuring Web Server for details.

Audit Trail level - See Configuring Audit for details.

Security Policies - See Configuring Security Policies for details.

Feature Options - See Configuring Feature Options for details.

Archive Servers - See Configuring Archive Servers for details.

Set up Roles

Create Roles and allocate Permissions to them.

Set up Users

Create user accounts for everyone that needs to access EPM Data Management and assign them Roles.

Configure your I/O

Set up your physical I/O channels.

Set up Functions

Configure the functions required for your process

Math - See Maths for details.

Timers - See Timers for details.

Totalizers - See Totalizers for details.

Counters - See Counters for details.

Applications - See Applications for details.

Jobs - See Jobs for details.

Set up Groups

Create the groups you are recording.

See Groups for details.
Set up Batch Configurations

Before you can run a Batch, you must create Batch Configurations.

See Batch and Configuring a Batch for details.
Set up Archiving

Archiving is the process of saving the data recorded by your recorder, you must therefore configure archiving as part of the initial commissioning of your Data Recorder.

Last update - April 2026