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Ignition is an Industrial Application Platform that can be used to create SCADA and HMI solutions. A fully functional Ignition system can be downloaded and run in trial mode. Using Ignition as a tool in this way, we can install the Sparkplug MQTT Modules and observe everything working.

Go to the Inductive Automation download page and download the desired version (select version from the 'Ignition Version' dropdown) of the Ignition installer for Windows, Linux or MacOS;
 https://inductiveautomation.com/downloads/ignitionarchive

Once the Ignition installer has been downloaded, follow the instructions provided by Inductive Automation to install and startup Ignition.

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Go to the Inductive Automation download page again and scroll down to the Third Party modules section. Find the Cirrus Link modules section and download the Azure Injector Module.
https://inductiveautomation.com/downloads/ignitionarchive.  The  The download links should look similar to what is shown below.

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Step 3: Configure the MQTT Modules

Once you have Ignition installed and running, and the Azure Injector module downloaded, browse to the Ignition Gateway console (e.g. http://localhost:8088).  Login using the default credentials of admin/password.  Click on Configuration tab and then click on the Modules tab on the left side of the page.  Scroll to the bottom of the Modules section and click on the Download/Upgrade modules button.  When prompted, select the Azure Injector module from the file browser and install it.  When complete, the Ignition Gateway Web UI module section should look similar to what is shown below:

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Select the "AZURE INJECTOR" → "Settings" link on the lower left of the page to navigate to the Azure Injector Module's configuration page.  A detailed explanation of each configuration tab can be found here.  For this tutorial, we will only be adding a new Azure IoT Hub Setting.

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Click on the "Create new Azure IoT Hub Setting..." link to bring up the following configuration form:

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The Protocol, Set, and Certificates fields can be left with the default values.  Click on "Create New Azure IoT Hub Setting" to finish creating the new configuration setting.

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If you click on the "Tag Agents" tab you will see that out-of-the-box the Azure Injector module will have one default Tag Agent defined.  For this tutorial we will not need to make any configuration changes to the Tag Agents.

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The Default Tag Agent will monitor tags that are in the "Edge Nodes" folder of the "default" Tag Provider.  In the next step we go into more detail about the tags in this folder.

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  • The Sparkplug elements: Namespace, Group ID, Edge Node ID, Device ID.  They will be grouped under "topic".
  • A "timestamp" for when the payload was constructed.
  • A "bdSeq" sequence number to track the "session" of the Tag Agent.
  • Any Device tags defined in the "Tutorial Device" folder.  It will look something like this:

It will look something like this:

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