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Prerequisites:
Overview:
This tutorial shows how to configure MQTT Transmission to generate custom records and send them as MQTT messages via MQTT Distributor to be stored in a database. The topology of this example shows MQTT Distributor, MQTT Engine, Record Store, and MQTT Transmission all running in the same Ignition instance. This is done for simplicity of the tutorial. But, this isn't required or even intended to be a real use case. In a more realistic scenario MQTT Transmission and MQTT Engine would be located on separate machines.
The first step is to configure the Tag Provider in Ignition in a way that MQTT Transmission understands. The Tag Provider needs to be set up in Ignition via the Ignition Designer. Here is how to do this:
Near the upper right corner, click 'Launch Designer'. This will open the following window after downloading the JNLP file and executing it. Note the default username/password is admin/password. Type those into the appropriate fields and click 'Login'.