MQTT Recorder provides a configuration section to the Ignition Gateway.  These can be seen in the Configure section of the Ignition Gateway web UI on the left panel.

General

These are the general MQTT Recorder configuration settings.

Main

• Enabled
  • This denotes whether or not to enable or disable the MQTT Recorder module.
• 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 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 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

Tables

These are the settings for the database tables that MQTT Recorder will insert the records into.

Table Settings

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

• 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 enabled
• Record Type
  • An optional Record Type to filter on. If specified, only records with this Record Type will be placed in the table.
• Group ID
  • An optional Sparkplug Group ID to filter on. If specified, only records with this Group ID will be placed in the table.
• Edge Node ID
  • An optional Sparkplug Edge Node ID to filter on. If specified, only records with this Edge Node ID will be placed in the table.
• Device ID
  • An optional Sparkplug Device ID to filter on. If specified, only records with this Device ID will be placed in the table.
• Field Filters
  • An 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}