Signals Image Artist: Data transfer from Harmony

Prerequisites:

Harmony versions 5.0.2012.1957 or greater natively support connections to SImA. If establishing connections from Harmony version 4.9, the Harmony software may need patching as describes in the following knowledge article: Signals Image Artist: Why can I not establish a connection to SImA from Harmony v4.9?

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

Configuring SImA:

The SImA server must be able to resolve the short (non fully-qualified) hostname of the Harmony ODA workstation to the correct IP address. If DNS is not configured, the hostname of the Harmony ODA PC can be passed to the SImA container stack using an EXTRA_HOST name definition via the .env file.

The format of the .env entry should be hostname:ip_address. The hostname refers to the name of the Harmony ODA workstation. See below for an example where there are two Harmony systems in use are called harmony51 and harmony52.

EXTRA_HOST1=harmony51:10.11.12.51
EXTRA_HOST2=harmony52:10.11.12.52
EXTRA_HOST3=placeholder2:192.0.2.2
EXTRA_HOST4=placeholder3:192.0.2.3
EXTRA_HOST5=placeholder4:192.0.2.4

The SImA stack must be redeployed for changes to the .env file to take effect. See Signals Image Artist: How do I redeploy the container stack? for further information. 

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.