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Alarms, events, and history are made available to MQTT Transmission to be published as immutable Record objects to an MQTT server.  Typically these would be received by the MQTT Engine and MQTT Recorder modules running on a central Ignition Gateway and inserted into a database for later use or to be made available to other third party systems.

Common File Exchange File (CFX) can also be used for these record data.

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If using Common File Exchange (CFX), the record data will be stored/maintained in CFX.MD5 files on the local Ignition instance. See the ABB Totalflow Device Connection configuration for more details. 

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To do this, you will need to configure an MQTT Transmission File Record and set the CFX File Transfer parameter to point to that File Record and the CFX files can then be automatically published. See the Creating and Publishing Common Exchange File CFX tutorial for details.

Publish as an immutable record object

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