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MQTT Recorder provides a configuration section to the Ignition Gateway .  These can be and this can been seen in the Configure section left side bar of the Ignition Gateway web UI on the left-hand navigation pane - Configure → MQTT Recorder → Settings..Image Added

The configuration options for each of the tabs - General and Tables - are detailed below.

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General

These are the general MQTT Recorder configuration settings and there is a single Main section available.

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• Enabled
  • This denotes whether Checkbox to enable or /disable the MQTT Recorder module. Selected by default.
• Datasource
  
  • A dropdown list to select the database connection to use for record storage.  This list is populated with the database connections set up within the Ignition Gateway.
• Partition Period
  • The partitioning scheme period to use for record tables within database.  Each table name will be appended with a date indicating the partition time period.  For example, if table were created for "alarm" records on September 25, 2018 at 2:00 AM, they the table name for each partition type would be:
    • None: rs_alarm
    • Hourly: rs_alarm_2018_09_25_02
    • Daily: rs_alarm_2018_09_25
    • Weekly: rs_alarm_2018_39
    • Monthly: rs_alarm_2018_09
    • Yearly: rs_alarm_2018

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Tables

Tables

These are the settings for the database tables that MQTT Recorder will insert the records into and there is a single Main section available.Image AddedImage Removed

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Table Settings

A Table Setting consists of a Table Name and various optional filters.

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• Table Name
  • The name of the table where records will be inserted. When creating a dynamic table name using tokens, the values must contain only valid characters allowed in the database table name.

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• Table Name
The name of the table where records will be inserted. 
• • This name can be statically defined or be dynamically build up using the following tokens
    
    • ${type} - The Record Type of the record being inserted
    • ${group} - The Sparkplug Group ID of the record being inserted
    • ${edgenode} - The Sparkplug Edge Node ID of the record being inserted
    • ${device} - The Sparkplug Device ID of the record being inserted
    • ${field:<name>} - The value of any field of the record being inserted where <name> is the name of the field
• Enabled
  • Whether this Table Setting is enabledCheckbox to enable/disable the table setting. Selected by default.
• Record Type
  • An optional Optional Record Type to filter onto match to the table name. If specified, only records with this Record Type will be placed in the table.
• Group ID
  • An optional Optional Sparkplug Group ID to filter on.  If If specified, only records with this Group ID will be placed in the table.
• Edge Node ID
  • An optional Optional Sparkplug Edge Node ID to filter on.  If If specified, only records with this Edge Node ID will be placed in the table.
• Device ID
  • An optional Optional Sparkplug Device ID to filter on.  If If specified, only records with this Device ID will be placed in the table.
• Field Filters
  • An optional Optional semicolon delimited list of field filters.  Each field filter is declared using one of the following forms:   {<field>:<operator>:<value>}, {<field>:NULL}, or {<field>:NOTNULL}
    • <field> - the name of the field to filter on.
    • <operator> - the filter operator.  Must be one of the following: ==, !=, >, <, >=, or <=
    • <value> - the value of the field.
  • Values that contain ':', ';', or '\' characters must have the character escaped with a leading '\' character.
  • Examples:
    • To only insert records that match a "serial_number" field equal to "0123456" the filter would be: {serial_number:==:0123456}
    • To only insert records that contain a "temp1" field the filter would be:  {temp1:NOTNULL}
    • To exclude records that match a "unit_id" field equal to "112:008:32455" the filter would be: {unit_id:!=:112\:008\:32455}

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