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Tag Agents are the workers within Google Cloud Injector that monitor tag events, convert them to a JSON representation, and push them to one or more Cloud IoT Core endpoints. Out of the box the Google Cloud Injector module will have one "default" Tag Agent defined.

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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. 

Agent Settings

• Name
  • A unique name for the tag agent.
• Enabled
  • Sets whether the Tag Agent is enabled or disabled.  If disabled, the Tag Agent will not run and no data will be pushed to any configured endpoints.
• 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.
• 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 can only be set if 'Convert UDTs' is false  
    • Whether or not to push the UDT Definitions in the the NBIRTH messages
  • Optimize UDTs
    • This can only be set if 'Convert UDTs' is false
    • Whether or not to 'convert UDTs' only for DATA messages.
• Set
  • The Set of Cloud IoT Core endpoints that the Tag Agent will push to.

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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.

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