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Tag Agents are configured to point to a single folder.  All Tags within that folder will be monitored by the Tag Agent. Image Removed

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Clicking on the 'Create new Tag Agent Settings..' link will bring up the following form to add a new Tag Agent. The configuration sections available are Agent Settings, Sparkplug Settings and Advanced

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Tag Agents - Agent Settings

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• Tag Provider Name
  
  • The name of the Tag provider containing the tags.
• Tag Path
  • An optional folder path under the Tag provider where the root folder of the Tags can be found.
• Push Trigger
  • Defines what triggers a push to the cloud endpoint
    • EVENT_DRIVEN (default) - when a tag change event (value or quality) occurs, and no pending push exists, tag events will be aggregated for the 'Tag Pacing Period' before being pushed.  
    • PERIODIC - will push the latest data for all tags associated with the Agent every 'Tag Pacing Period'. With this option, only one event per tag will be sent and tag change events will not be captured.
• Tag Pacing Period
  • The buffer period, in milliseconds, that Tag events will be aggregated into a single payload before pushing.
•  Convert UDTs
  • Whether to convert UDT members to normal Tags before publishing.  If enabled the Tags representing the UDT member will retain their member path prefixed by the UDT Instance name.
• Publish UDT Definitions
  • This will only be used if 'Convert UDTs' is false  
  • Whether or not to push the UDT Definitions in the the NBIRTH messages
• Optimize UDTs
  • This will only be used if 'Convert UDTs' is false
  • Whether or not to 'convert UDTs' only for DATA messages.
• Set
  • The Set of Azure IoT Hub endpoints that the Tag Agent will push to.

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