Gateway Settings |
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System Name | Is a unique name for this Ignition installation. It is used to distinguish this server from others on the network when working with multiple Ignition installations.
Caution: It is not recommended to change the System Name on a Gateway that is in production. Doing so can cause subsystems that reference the name, such as the Tag Historian system, to malfunction.
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System User Source | Is the user source used to secure access to the Gateway, as well as to the Designer. |
Gateway Config Role(s) | Is a comma-separated list of roles, one of which is required to log into the Gateway's configuration section. These roles must be defined in the System User Source. |
Status Page Role(s) | The required roles to access the Gateway's Status section. Leave blank to remove security restrictions for this section. |
Home Page Role(s) | The required roles to access the Gateway's Home section. Leave blank to remove security restrictions for this section. Note that this is only used to limit the access to the homepage itself, each project has its own user source for limiting access to the runtimes. |
Designer Roles | Users must belong to one of these roles in order to have access for logging into the Designer. Multiple roles can be specified by separating them with commas. |
Global Resource Protection | The roles required to protect or modify a protected global resource such as an alarm pipeline. If blank, anyone that can log into the Designer can protect global resources. |
Allow User Admin | Allows the administration of the Gateway's system user source from the Designer and Client. Unless this is enabled, the Vision module's User Management Component is prevented from altering the Gateway's system user source. |
Use SSL | Forces the clients to use SSL encrypted communication when talking to the Gateway. It is highly recommended that you purchase and install a genuine SSL certificate if you use this option. See Installing a Genuine SSL Certificate. |
Persist Alarms | Whether or not alarm properties such as acknowledgment should persist across Gateway restarts. |
Update Notifications | When enabled a notification bar is displayed at the top of the configuration page when a new version of Ignition is available for download. This only works if your server is connected to the internet. |
Web-Launch Settings |
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Launch Link Script Policy | Controls how the HTML that launches Clients and Designer functions. If set to JavaScript, the links use javascript to attempt to launch directly using the Java browser plugin. If set to Direct, the links are direct links to the *.jnlp files that launch the Client or Designer. |
Allowed JREs | A semicolon separated list of allowed JREs for web-launching Clients and Designers. For example: 1.7;1.8 allows Java 7 and Java 8. |
Designer Memory | The maximum amount of memory that the Designer has access to. |
Disable Direct3D/ Disable DirectDraw | These properties affects launched Clients and Designers on Windows OS only. These flags control whether or not the Java Swing windowing subsystem may use Direct3D and/or DirectDraw. Disabling these features can incur a performance penalty, but might be required for some video cards that have faulty DirectX drivers. |
Local Client Fallback |
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Enable Local Fallback | Enables a client to fall back to a project in a local Gateway if communication is lost to the central Gateway. Note that port 6501 must be open on the local machine. |
Seconds Before Failover | The number of seconds to wait before switching to the local Gateway project after communication loss. |
Fallback Project | The local project to use during fallback. |
Scheduled Backup Settings |
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Enable Scheduled Backups | Enables the scheduled backup system which automatically makes backups at a scheduled time. |
Backup Folder | A path to a folder in which to put the scheduled backups. |
Backup Schedule | A UNIX crontab style scheduling string representing when to make the backups. |
Retentions Count | The number of backups to keep in the backup folder. |
Error Reporting |
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SMTP Server | When not blank, user-reported errors are emailed using this SMTP server. |
To Address | The email address(es) that will receive the error notification. Separate multiple email addresses with a semicolon (;) |
From Address | The email address that the error notification is from. |
SMTP Username | A username for the SMTP server, if required. |
Change Password? | Check this box to change the existing password. |
Password | A password for the SMTP server, if required. |
Password | Re-type password for verification. |
Multicast Settings |
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Enable Multicast | Allows this Gateway to be discoverable on your local network. |
Multicast IP Address | Gateway messages are broadcast on this address. |
Send Port | This port must be open on this machine to send multicast messages. |
Recieive Port | This port must be open on any machine that will receive multicast messages. |
Message Interval | The interval in milliseconds at which multicast messages will be sent. |