Canvas Beta Reminder

January 17, 2017 / 0 comments / in Canvas  General  / by Walter Goodwater

UPDATE:

The testing period for our initial beta has concluded. Thanks to everyone who participated!

A look at redundancy for the 8.5 release

November 17, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

Just 10 months ago we published an article looking for feedback on our plan to make CygNet redundant.  We got lots of feedback (thank you!) and have been working hard ever since to lay the groundwork for a top notch feature.  As expected, we had to cut lots of scope and weren’t able to do it all in this release, but I’m confident that what we completed will get you to parity (or very close) with the scripted solution many of you are currently using.  We will continue working in the next release to deliver even more in 2017, but I wanted to take a moment to describe what you can expect in the coming 8.5 release.

CygNet Online Courses

October 25, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  / by Luke Williams

I am pleased to announce that we will begin offering a selection of online courses for free, each quarter, beginning January 2017.

Start using the Job Runner today

August 30, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  / by Luke Williams

How do you handle big, time consuming, scripted jobs in the HyperPoint Scripting Service?  When an operation consumes the single-threaded HSS process for longer than desired, other scripts may not execute in a timely fashion.

Do you want to utilize custom .NET assemblies from within CygNet’s VBScript environment?

What if you could do both, right now, from the HSS, with a few simple lines of script?

Good news.  You can!

Is your DDS Audit trail telling you everything it can?

July 5, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  / by Luke Williams

What was the last Data group added to a remote device?  Who edited the data element mapping inside a specific data group, and what was it set to before they changed it?

One of the challenges with administrating a CygNet site can be being aware of the changes made to device configurations, and who made them.

Do you have a large production VHS? Don’t fall into the allocation predicament!

June 28, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  Support  / by Jacob Allred

If your production database is larger than 500 Gb, I’d like to take a moment to talk about a potential ticking time bomb that might be present in your production environment so that you have the tools necessary to disarm it before it detonates.

Extreme file fragmentation + Small disk allocation size = Disaster

Canvas Introduction

May 3, 2016 / 0 comments / in Canvas  General  / by Walter Goodwater

For any who weren’t able to see our introduction to Canvas at WESC 2016, we put together a video describing some of the new features. Take a look and be sure to fill out the feedback survey or use the comments below to give us your thoughts.

2016 Weatherford Enterprise Software Conference

March 10, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  Software Conference  / by CygNet Blog Admin

Don’t forget to register for the 2016 Weatherford Enterprise Software Conference, to be held in Houston on April 25-27, 2016. This year we will be talking about the latest release for SCADA and Measurement, the launch of the CygNet Mobile app, new developments in lift optimization, and a deep-dive into the CygNet Designer, plus the first look at Canvas, our new screen authoring environment. You won’t want to miss out so sign up soon!

The plan to make CygNet truly redundant

January 21, 2016 / 2 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

As many of you are well aware, CygNet does not have a great solution for productized failover.  You can replicate CygNet data.  You can setup a clustering environment to detect failures.  You can write scripts to swap config files in order to change a services role.  I’ve talked to many of you over the last month or two and for those who do have a working solution, it took a lot of work to setup, and takes a lot of work to maintain.

For those of you who are in this boat, or are afraid to get into the boat, I’m happy to announce that we have a team assembled and are working to vastly improve this process!

CygNet Operator is released!

January 18, 2016 / 0 comments / in General  / by CygNet Blog Admin

I’m happy to announce that CygNet Operator, our first mobile app, has been officially released!  I won’t go into details on the app as that was already covered in a previous post.  I just wanted to let you all know that you can find the app in the iTunes store by searching for “CygNet Operator”.  You can’t do anything with the app until you connect to a host, so we have a test site running that is publically available.  If you are interested, just email us and we will send you the details (CygNetBlogAdmin@weatherford.com).