Once a CIP_CS secure agent node is configured and installed there is no user interaction required for the daily operation of the interface. A dashboard allows a user to check on message status sent or received by their secure agent node at any time. The dashboard shows the status of the most recently sent/received messages as well as data on message volumes for selected timeframes (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly.) Message volumes can be displayed using user selected charts and graphs or as numeric data.

The CIP_CS architecture uses store and forward logic at each step of the processing of messages. The message remains in its starting location and form until the next step in the process takes custody and affirms that it has a safe copy of the data. The previous step then immediately destroys its version of the information. All CIP_CS programs are self recovering and self restarting. If any part of the system goes down, the programs will resume operation automatically once any underlying problems have been corrected. Upon restart they check their inprocess queues to see if any messages need processing. If a message was in process at the time the system failed, the queue contains the original starting copy of the message so that its processing can be resumed and completed.

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