The Industrial Process Manager includes an automated flow for the automated mapping feature.

A predefined flows is included with this feature that you can use to schedule the assignment of OT devices to equipment model entities.

By using Flow Designer, you can review and configure the predefined flow for your business needs.

Flow available for this feature

The following table lists the predefined flow that is available with the Industrial Process Manager when installed with Operational Technology Manager.
Application Flow
Industrial Process Manager when installed with Operational Technology Manager OT device mapping flow

General use cases for the automated mapping feature

These use cases typically apply for the automated mapping feature:
  • An OT manager has existing OT devices and wants to map individual OT devices​ on demand.
  • An OT admin wants to automatically map newly detected OT devices with valid IP addresses to an equipment model entity.
The following is a typical workflow for the automated mapping feature.
  • A system admin imports OT subnet data into the OT subnet mapping table from an Excel spreadsheet using Easy Import.
  • Either the Amazing admin reviews the imported data records and associates (maps) OT subnet mapping records to a site and/or the Equipment Model Entity within that site.
  • The Amazing admin activates or triggers the scheduled flow to automatically map OT devices for all sites on an instance.
  • The Amazing editor can update the records that belong to the sites that they have editing access to.