To open the application properties, right click the application name in the UAM tree and then select “Properties” or double click the application.
Licensing
The first tab you’ll see when you open the application properties is the license tab. The application will not start if there is not a valid license file assigned. To License the application, download the license request file by clicking the “Download” button and email it to your contact at AUTOSOL. You will receive a license file back which you will then need to upload on this same tab. To upload click the “Choose File” button, select the license file from where it is stored on your device and then click “Submit”
Once applied, you’ll see the “Expiration Date” field populate.
Subscriber Settings
Primary Host ID
AUTOSOL Bridge has the ability to act as the Primary Client in an MQTT Sparkplug B architecture. If this option is filled in with a string then when AUTOSOL Bridge connects or disconnects from a broker it will update the STATE topic. If this option is left blank then no updates will be sent on the STATE topic.
Group IDs
AUTOSOL Bridge has the ability to selectively subscribe to only certain Group IDs. If Group IDs are present in the list, AUTOSOL Bridge will only subscribe to topics that contain those Group IDs. If no Group ID’s are present in the list, AUTOSOL Bridge will subscribe to any Sparkplug B message coming from the broker.
Node IDs
AUTOSOL Bridge has the ability to request rebirths from known nodes on startup, to do that the nodes but be defined here. They must be defined in the format {Group ID}/{Node ID} in order for AUTOSOL Bridge to know where to send the rebirth request.
Logging Settings
Enable Logging
Selecting this option will tell the service to make diagnostic log files as it runs. If disabled, no log files will be created
Log File Path
The directory in which you want the service to create log files. Log files will be created in the selected directory if logging is enabled when the service starts.
History Settings
AUTOSOL Bridge has the ability to create CSV files containing the data that is received from the broker but marked as Historical in a Sparkplug B message.
Enable Historic Output
Selecting this option will tell the service to make output files for messages it receives where there is Historical Sparkplug B data present. If disabled, no files will be created and that data is simply ignored by the service.
History Output Path
The directory in which you want the service to create historic CSV files. Historic CSV files will be created in the selected directory if the option is enabled when the service starts.
Date Format
Defines how the datetime will be output in the file. The default value (%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M,%S) is what is needed for import into ClearSCADA. The files will be output in the format Datetime,Value with the file name being {NodeID}^{DeviceID}^{ItemName}.csv. For other formatting options that can be input into the Date Format field check the table here.
UTC Time
Tells the application to create the datetimes using UTC time, if enabled, or local time, if disabled.
Backfill Unadvised Tags
AUTOSOL Bridge has the ability to store the current values of unadvised tags in the historic csv output files. This is useful in cases where your main OPC client may go down while AUTOSOL Bridge is still receiving data, if this option is enabled then the service will store current data as historic so it can be imported into your OPC Client after if comes back online.
OPC Settings
Enable Long OPC Item Names
AUTOSOL Bridge can present Sparkplug B data as OPC data in two different ways. When this option is disabled the data from Sparkplug B will be presented as {Device ID}.{Item Name}. When this option is enabled the data will be presented as {Group ID}/{Node ID}/{Device ID}.{Item Name}.