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The General Settings tab contains a single Main section.Image Added

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The 'Connected' column will show the connection status of each MQTT Client with the MQTT Server.Image Removed

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The configuration sections available are Main, TLS, Advanced and RPC Client Connection

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The Certificates tab contains a single Main section.

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  • Certificate File Upload
    • Browse to the certificate file or private key to upload.
  • Friendly Name
    • The friendly name of the certificate file or private key.
  • File Description
    • The description of the certificate file or private key.

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The Sets tab contains a list of server sets.  Each set represents a logical grouping of MQTT servers.  When a set is referenced by a Transmitter configuration, a single connection to one of the servers in the set will be maintained. The other servers will act as failover in the case that a connection with the first is lost.  Server sets cannot have common elements meaning that a single MQTT server cannot be in more than one set.Image Removed

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The Sets tab contains Main and RPC Client sections.

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  • Name
    • This is the friendly name of the set used to easily identify it.
  • Description
    • This is a friendly description of the set.
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    Primary Host ID
    • The primary host ID to use for 'state' notifications.
    • If configured, MQTT Transmission will subscribe on 'state' notification topics. If MQTT Transmission is notified that the primary backend application has gone 'offline', it will close it's client connection with the MQTT server and walk to the next MQTT server defined in the set.  If the primary host ID is not set, MQTT Transmission will not subscribe on the notification topics and not receive any 'state' notifications.
    • This must contain only letters, numbers, or any of the following special characters: . $ % @ ! - _ ^ *

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If your tag folder hierarchy does not conform to this structure, you can explicitly define these required elements under theSparkPlug Settings section and the elements will be prepended to your tag string.Image Removed

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The configuration sections available are Tag Settings, Command Settings, History Settings, Alarm Settings, Sparkplug Settings and Advanced Settings.

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The UNS Transmitter can be configured to read tags from the UNS structure created by MQTT Engine and publish tag changes over MQTT to any Enterprise consuming clients.

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Review our Using MQTT Modules to map ISA 95 Enterprise Structure in a UNS Architecture document for more details on using the UNS Transmitter.

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Records are published via an MQTT client using a Sparkplug-like format such as spBv1.0/Group/NRECORD/Edge or spBv1.0/Group/DRECORD/Edge/Device  

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The configuration sections available are Tag Settings, Sparkplug Settings, Records Signature and Advanced Settings.

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  • Tag Provider
    • Free form field for the name of the tag provider where the record tags reside (i.e. default)
  • Tag Folder Path
    • Free form field for the path to the tag folder under specified tag provider where the record tags reside
    • Do not include the provider name. For a tag path of [default]Edge Nodes/G1/E1/MyRecord, enter Edge Nodes/G1/E1/MyRecord
  • Record Type
    • Free form field for the type of record represented by the tags in the folder path
    • This will be included in the NRECORD or DRECORD data and used by MQTT Recorder when creating DB tables or filtering the data inserted into the DB

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The 'Files' tab allows for the configuration to publish files which are transferred using Sparkplug over MQTT.Image Added

The configuration for file record creates a set of control tags (which specify where to locate the file to publish and a manual trigger option) along with information tags publish status and history. 

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  • Tag Name
    • A friendly name for File Records which must be unique. Name is prepopulated 
  • Tag Provider
    • Free form field for the path to the name of the tag provider where the file control and information tags will be created
  • Tag Folder Path
    • Free form field for the path to the tag folder under the specified tag provider where the file control and information tags will be created
    • Do not include the provider name. For a tag path of [default]MyFiles, enter MyFiles

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