You can monitor multiple remote POS sites from a central office by setting up Federation™. This lets you monitor incoming transactions
and generate reports for Transaction Finder entities from the Federation™ host.
Before you begin
- Understand Federation™.
- Deploy the plugin and integrate the POS system with Security Center on each remote site.
- Read the release notes to learn about known issues and limitations that affect the use
of Federation™ for this plugin.
What you should know
- When using Federation™ to query a terminal on a
remote system, the value of the Source field is left blank.
- It is not possible to control the Transaction Finder entities from the Federation™ host.
Procedure
-
Open Config
Tool on the server that host
Federation™.
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Add the Transaction Finder base license (part number GSC-1P-TRANSACFINDER-BASE).
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Install the Transaction Finder
plugin.
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Create a Transaction Finder plugin
role.
You do not connect the role to anything. This step is just to add the plugin entities
to the host.
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Set up a
Security Center
Federation™.
Create a Federation™ role for each remote site that
hosts the Transaction Finder
plugin role.
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Deactivate and then re-activate the Federation™
role.
The Transaction Finder entities (parsers and terminals) are displayed in
the entity browser of the Federation™ host.
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Expand the Federation™ host role and confirm that the
parser and terminal entities are listed in the entity browser.
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If the entities are missing, restart the Main server for the Federation™ host.
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(Optional) Delete the Transaction Finder plugin role that you created in step 4.
NOTE: If the role is not deleted, you might see an role offline warnings when performing
transactions.
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In the Monitoring task, add the terminal entities to the event monitoring
list.