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Tag Agents define what tags will be picked up in the Ignition tag tree and pushed to the defined cloud service. Tag Agents are very similar to MQTT Transmission 'Transmitters' in terms of how they interact with the Ignition Tag Tree. The 'Tag Provider' and 'Tag Path' configuration options define where in the Ignition Tag Tree the Agent will look for tags. There are also configuration options for the Sparkplug Group, Edge Node, and Device ID.
The Agent scans or discovers folders based on the different combinations of potential Sparkplug Settings.
Consider the following Custom Transmitter configuration.
Now consider the following tag tree:
With this Tag Agent configuration and tag tree we end up with the following Sparkplug IDs.
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Note because there was no Device ID specified in the Tag Agent configuration so the Device IDs get picked up from the tag tree.
Consider another example:
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