AUTOSOL Bridge Properties

To open the application properties, right click the application name in the AAM tree and then select “Properties” or double click the application.

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Licensing

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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 AUTOSOL sales representative or to AUTOSOL Customer Service. 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 field contains a value, AUTOSOL Bridge will update the STATE topic when it connects or disconnects from a broker it. If this field 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. Those nodes are defined here and must be in the format {Group ID}/{Node ID} in order for AUTOSOL Bridge to know where to send the rebirth request.

Logging Settings

Enable Logging

When selected, the AUTOSOL Bridge will create diagnostic log files as it runs. If not selected, log files will not be created.

Log File Path

The directory in which the service will 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

This option tells the service to create output files for messages it receives when Historical Sparkplug B data is present. If disabled, no files will be created and that data is simply ignored by the service.

History Output Path

The directory in which the service will create historic CSV files if the “Enable Historic Output” option is selected.

Date Format

Defines the format the datetime will be output in the file. The default value (%Y,%m,%d,%H,%M,%S) 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 the main OPC client goes down while AUTOSOL Bridge is still receiving data. If this option is enabled, the service will store current data as “historic” so it can be imported into your OPC Client after the OPC client 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}.