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  • Store & Forward Enabled
    • Whether to enable Store & Forward capabilities for this endpoint
  • Store & Forward Type
    • The type of the Store & Forward mechanism
  • Message Capacity
    • The Maximum number of messages to store before dropping the oldest historical messages
  • Flush Period
    • The period of time to wait (in milliseconds) between sending when flushing messages

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Advanced

  • Keep Alive
    • The MQTT keep alive timeout in seconds
  • Max Message Size
    • The maximum message size in bytes that any message can be when pushing to IoT Hub.
  • Session Expiration
    • How long in seconds to specify for session token timeouts when not using certificate based authentication

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  • Setting Name
    • This is a friendly name of the Azure Event Hub used to easily identify it.  This must also be unique.
  • Password/Connection String
    • This is the Azure Event Hub connection string used to connect. 
    • NOTES: Be sure to provide the connection string for the EventHub itself and not the EventHub Namespace. They both have connection strings, but the one for the EventHub will be of the form -

      Endpoint=<YOUR_ENDPOINT>;SharedAccessKeyName=<YOUR_KEYNAME>;SharedAccessKey=<YOUR_KEY>=;EntityPath=<YOUR_EVENTHUB_ENTITYPATH>

      The Namespace connection string will not contain the entity path.

  • Set
    • The Set to associate this Azure Event Hub connection with.
  • Certificate File Upload
    • The server certificates to use if required.

Store & Forward

  • Store & Forward Enabled
    • Whether to enable Store & Forward capbilities for this endpoint
  • Store & Forward Type
    • The type of the Store & Forward mechanism
  • Message Capacity
    • The Maximum number of messages to store before dropping the oldest historical messages
  • Flush Period
    • The period of time to wait (in milliseconds) between sending when flushing messages

Advanced

  • Max Message Size
    • The maximum message size for the Azure Event Hub. Default is 262144 bytes (256KB).
      • EventHub Basic: 262144 bytes (256KB)
      • EventHub Standard or better: 1048576 bytes (1MB)

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As you can see, the Sparkplug settings can be used to either hard-code these IDs, or leave them blank so that the Agent will scan and discover them based on the tag tree layout. 

Advanced

  • Filtered Properties
    • A semicolon delimited list of Tag properties to filter/block from being published.  These should typically not be modified unless there is an explicit requirement that a specific property is needed to be added or removed from the default.

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