PARCmobile Summary and Overview

This information is specific to the latest release of PARCview:

7.2.x

PARCMobile is an application that allows users to view PARCView trends and graphics through a web browser. A website and an application called PARCMobileHost make up PARCMobile. Browsers request PARCView screens from the web site, the site passes the request to PARCMobileHost which is responsible for rendering images of screens and passing rendered images back to the web site which finally sends images to the browser. Older 5.x PARCMobile installs would keep PARCMobileHosts running as Windows applications running as services. In the 7.x PARCMobile the Internet Information Services is responsible for managing the installation and configuration.

PARCSecurity Permissions

PARCsecurity Console controls two aspects to PARCmobile.

• Launch PARCmobile – Grants access to the PARCmobile application
• PARCmobile Admin – Grants administrative access to PARCmobile

Configuration

The configuration and installation details for PARCmobile are complicated and outside the scope of the overview. This Article will provide more details on configuration.

In short it requires using the installer files to set up a web site via Internet Information Services and updating configuration files. On top of requiring the PARCview client to be installed. The necessary components are:

• Windows Server 2012 R2
• .NET Framework 4.7.2+
• .NET Core 2.2.8 Hosting
• .NET Core 6.0.4 Hosting
• Web Platform Installer
• Chrome or Edge Browser

Log Files

PARCMessage is a built-in error monitoring software. It creates an ongoing log of errors generated from PARCView on the specific computer where PARCMessage is running.

Additional information may be found in the wwwroot directory containing the application folders.

PARCMobileWeb: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\parcmobileweb\logs

PARCMobileHost: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\parcmobilehost\LogFiles\PARCmobileHostWebCore

Required Server Applications

Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 or Above

UA Server: All PARCview version 7 functionality requires a Universal Access (UA) server.

GDS: All PARCview version 7 functionality requires a Global Discovery Server (GDS).