Best Practice for
defining a device type's TotalAccess connections

TotalAccess connections can be made automatically for individual devices when the Service Agent starts up. This requires configuration options in the Service Agent that are only available in versions 4.1 and later. (See the Questra Service Agent™ System Integrator Guide for more information.) To avoid human error, we recommend that automatic configuration of TotalAccess connections for individual devices be used whenever possible. Manual configuration for a device type or a device is required when Service Agents prior to 4.1 are in the field.

Device Type

(Read-only) The name of the device type you are working with.

Connection Type

Select the applicable connection type.

Initiate property

Select the device type property that will be used to initiate the publication of the connection to the Questra TotalAccess server. Initiation is required in order to establish a Questra TotalAccess session. (If this initiate property has not yet been defined, see Adding Questra TotalAccess properties to a device type.)

State property

Select the device type property that will be used to retrieve the state of the connection. (If this connection state property has not yet been defined, see Adding Questra TotalAccess properties to a device type.)