Step 1 - Configure the gateway and establish Internet connectivityĪfter you have unboxed your new gateway you will need to configure it and establish Internet connectivity. Congrats! You have successfully setup and tested the OPC UA server.I deployed a small Windows 10 Pro VM with the following specs to run the Prosys software. Since I did not have access to any physical equipment that supported OPC UA I choose to use the free Prosys OPC UA Simulation Server and install it on an Azure Virtual Machine (VM). For more information on OPC UA and Azure, see my " not-so-up-to-date" post from 2017 or watch this video from Erich Barnstedt.Optionally, steps 3 to 5 can be automated using the Azure Industrial IoT Gateway Installer.If your Azure IoT Edge gateway device comes with manufacturer instructions for installing/configuring IoT Edge, please follow those instead.While these instructions are for Linux, the OPC Publisher also supports Windows 10 SKUs based on build 1809 only.My colleague, Vitaliy Slepakov, has written a great blog post on using Custom X.509 Certificates with OPC Publisher. The OPC Foundation has put together some great articles on OPC UA security best practices. But friends don't let friends use defaults in production. To simplify this article I have used default security options.However, with OPC UA, you are generally deploying one or two gateways in a manufacturing facility and the OPC UA settings are very specific to that facility. I would normally recommend using Microsoft Device Provisioning Service (DPS) to deploy IoT Edge devices at scale.Namely, the ability to configure OPC Publisher via built-in OPC UA server and IoT Hub device method interface was removed and replaced with a cloud-based, companion REST microservice. OPC Publisher 2.6.x and later introduced some breaking changes. This article is based on OPC Publisher version 2.5.x and lower.The information below comes from several articles but my goal was to assemble all the steps in one place. Your plan is to connect some industrial equipment exposing an OPC UA interface and have telemetry from that equipment flow into Azure through Azure IoT Hub.Īssuming you ordered a Linux-based device and want to connect it to an OPC UA server, the following steps will walk you through the entire process. You eagerly open the box, pull out the device and begin to wonder " now what"? You just received your shiny, new "Edge Certified" gateway device that you ordered from the Azure IoT Device Catalog.
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