3 plant monitoring, 1 overview of plant monitoring, Plant monitoring – SMA SUNNY WEBBOX User Manual
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7.3 Plant Monitoring
7.3.1 Overview of Plant Monitoring
The page "Name of your plant > Plant monitoring" provides information on the monitoring status of 
your plant. You can set and activate various monitoring options. If desired, the plant monitoring can 
send you an alert via e-mail. The "Plant Monitoring" page is subdivided into a maximum of 4 areas:
Area
Meaning
Plant configuration
Is only displayed if Sunny Portal has detected a new 
device in your plant (see Section 10.2.7 ”Adding/
Replacing Devices (Configuration Wizard)” (page 67)).
Communication monitoring
Indicates whether there is connectivity between 
Sunny Portal and SMA communication products* . 
E-mail alerts possible.
*Sunny WebBox with Bluetooth, Sunny WebBox, Cluster Controller, Power Reducer Box
Inverter comparison
Displays whether the inverter yields of the selected 
inverters are within the configured range. E-mail alerts 
possible.
Setpoint monitoring
This function is only available if a device is registered in 
the plant which provides grid management data 
(Cluster Controller or Power Reducer Box). In the 
respective device, the use of Sunny Portal must be 
activated and the settings for grid management carried 
out.
Shows whether the plant is feeding into the electricity grid 
without restrictions by the grid operator. This area only 
indicates setpoints for active power limitation.
E-mail alerts possible upon reception of the following 
setpoints:
• Active power limitation
• Reactive power setpoint (fixed reactive power or 
phase shift factor cos-phi)
