Integrating Into Your Asset-Tracking Solution

Integrating Into Your Asset-Tracking Solution

The basic steps for integrating
Resonate RFID Reader Management
into your asset-tracking solution are outlined below. This guide deals with step 1. Refer to the
Resonate RFID Reader Management
User Guide for information on the remaining steps.
In these steps,
Resonate
refers to
Resonate RFID Reader Management
, and your application refers to your own or your partner's application that processes RFID reads.
  1. Install
    Resonate
    on one or more Linux machines (nodes).
    When you run the online
    Resonate
    installer, it downloads the
    Resonate
    containers from Zebra's Artifactory repository. The offline installer runs without internet access. Before running either installer, you should run the online prerequisites checker and setup tool (for example, to install and setup MicroK8s); alternatively, perform the tool's steps manually.
  2. From a browser, log in to
    Resonate
    to configure it and eventually to manage your RFID readers.
  3. If required, configure
    Resonate
    to use your Single Sign-On (SSO) provider (for example, IAM/SSO) for authentication.
  4. Run the
    Resonate Device Initializer
    utility on a Windows machine to initialize the readers that
    Resonate
    needs to manage, monitor, and configure; this also installs the Resonate Agent on the readers.
    • For automatic device discovery, run the utility onsite and on the same subnet as your RFID readers.
    • To initialize an explicitly specified list of readers, use the Device Migrator utility in conjunction with the Resonate Device Initializer. In this case, you can run the utility from any Windows machine, provided the network access is open.
    Both the Resonate Device Initializer and Device Migrator utilities are single executables without an installer and with no outside dependencies.
  5. Use the
    Resonate
    web interface to configure the RFID readers.
  6. Connect business applications that consume RFID tag read data directly to each reader to subscribe to its data streams.
  7. Configure
    Resonate
    to send email alerts to administrator users.
  8. Configure
    Resonate
    to send alert webhooks (https POST messages) to your IT case management solution.1
1 Currently, your application is responsible for alert monitoring.