The TopView Engine is the runtime process that performs the tasks of a TopView configuration including data monitoring, alarm recognition and logging, notifications, report generation, Remote Viewer and Mobile Web App connections. You can run multiple Engines on the same machine if you’d like to spread the alarm load across multiple independent processes.

The TopView Engine can run interactively or as a Windows Service.

 If interactive, The TopView Engine window provides two views of the monitored data (Current Values and Current Alarms) as well as Alarm History/Analytics and the ability to add alarm comments/annotations. If The TopView Engine is not interactive, these same views and alarm details are available in the TopView Remote Viewer and the Mobile Web App.