Signals Image Artist: Data transfer from Harmony

Note: Harmony version 5.0.2012.1957 or greater natively support connections to SImA. If you're using Harmony version 4.9, you may need to patch the Harmony software. Refer to: Signals Image Artist: Why can I not establish a connection to SImA from Harmony v4.9?

Prerequisites

• The Harmony PC must be able to connect to the SImA server via TCP port 443.
• The SImA server must be able to connect to the Harmony ODA workstation via TCP port 80.

Configuring SImA:

1. Hostname Resolution

The SImA server must resolve the short (non fully-qualified) hostname of the Harmony ODA workstation to the correct IP address.

• • If DNS is not configured, you can define the hostname of the Harmony ODA PC manually using the EXTRA_HOST setting in the .env file located in the SImA installation directory.

2. Using EXTRA_HOST Entries

• • SImA includes 5 EXTRA_HOST placeholders for configuring Harmony connections
  • To add more connections, refer to: Signals Image Artist: Enabling connections from additional Harmony hosts
  • EXTRA_HOST entries must include the name and IP address of of the Harmony ODA workstation, in the following format hostname:ip_address. See below example where the Harmony PC name is  harmonyODA and the IP is 10.11.12.13.

EXTRA_HOST1=harmonyODA:10.11.12.13

3. Redeploy the SImA stack

After updating the .env file, redeploy the SImA container stack. Refer to: Signals Image Artist: How do I redeploy the container stack?  

Configuring the connection within Harmony:

1.  In Harmony, log in as the user account that should be configured to transfer data to SImA.
2.  Select ‘Settings’ and click on ‘User Accounts’.

Re-authenticate using the same Harmony user account credentials as in step 1.

3.  Select ‘Manage Columbus Account’.

4.  Fill out the required fields then select ‘OK’.

Columbus URL: Hostname of the SImA server.

Columbus User Account: SImA user account that the data will be transferred into.

Columbus Password: Password of the aforementioned SImA account.

Note: If multiple Harmony user accounts are to be used for data transfer, steps 1-5 must be repeated for each Harmony user account.

Manual Data Transfer:

1.  In Harmony, log in to the user account you wish to use to when transferring data to SImA.

2.  Select ‘Settings’ and click on ‘Data Management’.

3.  Select ‘Columbus Transfer’.

4.  Select the dataset(s) to be transferred, as well as the Screen within SImA that the data should be transferred into, then select 'Start'. 

5.  The progress of the transfer job can be monitored via the Harmony and/or SImA Job Status pages.