First Steps

After installing Mango, these guides introduce the core concepts you need to start collecting and visualizing data.

• User Interface Overview — Navigate the Mango UI: home page, menus, date selectors, and the dashboard designer.
• What Is a Data Source? — Understand how Mango connects to devices and protocols.
• What Is a Data Point? — Learn about point locators, data types, and event detectors.
• What Is the XID? — The universal identifier that makes configurations portable between Mango instances.
• How to Set Data Point Values — Write values back to devices from the Mango UI.
• Using Auto Login — Configure public kiosk dashboards with automatic authentication.