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Before configuring Sparkplug SiteWise Bridge (SSB), you must register a 'thing' connection in AWS IoT Core. Begin by browsing to AWS IoT Core in your AWS account. Make sure you are in the same AWS region that you have already deployed SSB to. Expand. Begin by expanding 'Secure' and click 'Policies' as shown below.

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Now click the 'Create a policy' button. This will bring up the following page.

At this point a 'thing' can be created. To do so, expand 'Manage' on the left navigation panel and click 'Things' as shown below.

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Click 'Register a thing'. This will bring up the page below.

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Now click 'Create a single thing'. This will open the following page. Give you thing a name (such as SSB) and then click 'Next'.

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This will bring up the following page. Click the 'One-click certificate creation' option shown below.

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This will bring up the page similar to what is shown below. At this point, you must download the UUID.cert.pem file and the UUID.private.key file. These will both be used in the SSB configuration to connect to AWS IoT later. These files will not be accessible later and must be downloaded now. In addition, there is a link to download the root CA for AWS IoT. Make sure to download this as well. The 'RSA 2048 bit key: Amazon Root CA 1' is the preferred root certificate to download.

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At this point you should have three files where 'UUID' will be some UUID specific to your thing. Do not proceed until you have all three files.

• UUID.cert.pem
• UUDT.private.key
• AmazonRootCA1.pem

Once you have these, click the 'Activate' button. Then, click the 'Attach a policy' button. This will bring up the followingImage Removed

With SSB installed, it must be configured. To configure it, you must be able to access it via SSH. Ensure you can access it via the Access Instructions here. Once you can access it, you m

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