User Journey

the diagram below displays the most common journey of the manufacturing connect experience these tasks include important edge device management activities, but there are many other capabilities and features available to you in manufacturing connect 1\ for manufacturing connect, the user journey begins with google cloud marketplace solutions at the marketplace solutions, explore the marketplace and search marketplace for manufacturing connect 2a review the available options to install / upgrade manufacturing connect docid\ yhwg58leb5hm4g507yeg0 2b you can review user profile administration docid\ g6g7cpzwctbwzjdvjj0xy to see how to manage your user account and set up keycloak two factor authentication 3\ to connect an edge device (manufacturing connect edge instance) with manufacturing connect, you will need to activate an edge device docid\ m2du1twvne9kz1he r222 4\ you can keep track of connected edge devices by reviewing the status in manufacturing connect to monitor the status of edge devices, navigate to the edge management > edge devices pane and hover over the data | control icon to view the device status and additional details 5\ you can review details for alerts docid 2zmaxafw8faxd bhwsep6 and set up alert triggers docid\ no ur2h33zu216kfmyf7m for connected devices this allows you to monitor the activity of edge devices connected to manufacturing connect and receive alerts when important events occur 6\ the applications module contains a list of catalogs and applications available to the selected project manufacturing connect includes a default marketplace catalog with applications ready to be deployed you can manage applications docid 7snmdzrkqasymykaafjz5 from manufacturing connect and deploy an application to edge devices docid 6gp9vk1jyhrffxzdsx6hp 7\ templates allow you to create a template from an edge device or upload a template from a file for your edge devices important before you can create a template, you must add one or more online edge devices in the edge devices pane learn more about doing the following parameterize a template docid 6tbz1c52eesm9ft9s1ju0 apply a parameterized template docid\ v8pc8d 3w5propkwyjeo6 apply a parameterized template during activation docid\ cdkbirpnzt6fgveiwszt7 8\ to review metrics for an edge device, navigate to the edge management > edge devices pane and click the metrics tab to access more device information, you can view edge device details docid\ hsjujijb8wynup7znvyil and view data from a manufacturing connect edge instance and/or a child device docid\ dfjbnbtcv9fdjux1iijpq you can also review metrics by using grafana learn more about grafana dashboards docid\ hs1uzkcghf9aubg8eoxcj and visualize child device data using grafana docid 7arcayfrur9x7mafqft7w 9\ you can enable the remote ui feature to access and manage your connected edge devices from manufacturing connect you do not need access to public internet to access your edge devices before using this feature, review the before you begin section in open edge devices docid 4nmta3jptfgemui 1wuvp to use the remote ui feature, navigate to edge management > edge devices and click the open ui icon or open the action menu and select open ui