Gateway Settings

Gateway Configuration

Once you have the Gateway up and running, you start by configuring some or all of the general services in Ignition. You make the configuration changes from the Config section of the Gateway Webpage. The different broad categories of what you can configure are as follows:

• System  (Overview, Backup/Restore, Licensing, Modules, Projects, Redundancy and Gateway Settings)
• Networking (Web Server, Gateway Network and Email Settings)
• Security (Auditing ,Users, Roles, Service Security, Identity Providers, Security Levels, and Security Zones)
• Databases (Connections, Drivers, and Store and Forward)
• Alarming (General, Journal, Notification, On-Call Rosters, and Schedules)
• Tags (History and Realtime)
• OPC Client (OPC Connections and OPC Quick Client)
• OPC UA (Device Connections, Security, and Server Settings)
• Enterprise Administration (Event Thresholds, Controller Settings, Agent Management, License Management, and Agent Tasks)
• Sequential Function Charts (Settings)

Depending on what modules you have installed, some categories may be missing.

Important Gateway Settings

The Gateway is at the heart of the Ignition software. It runs as a web server and you can access it through a web browser. Once running, you can get various status information about the Gateway and access important functions. You can customize the Gateway's Homepage to fit your needs.  Here's a description of all the settings and list of all the their associated properties that you will need to setup based on your Gateway configuration and preferences. 

Required Roles

There are several properties that are required to access certain sections of the Gateway.  

Local Client Fallback Settings

Ignition provides a Local Vision Client Fallback mechanism that lets you use a Gateway running on the local machine. If the Gateway is lost, the Client can automatically retarget to a project that you specify in the local in the local Gateway. 

Scheduled Backups

The Scheduled Backup Settings control the Gateway's scheduled backup system. This system is capable of automatically making a Gateway backup and storing it to a folder path, which can be a network path. 

When you enable this system, you must specify a destination folder. This can be a local folder, for example C:\backups or /var/backups , or a network path such as \\fileserver\backups.

The scheduled backup system works on a schedule that is specified using UNIX Crontab syntax. This is a standard format for specifying a basic schedule. The format consists of five space-separated fields, one for minute, hour, day-of-month, month, and day-of-week. The special Gateway Configuration 72 character * means all. Slashes can be used to indicate that values should be stepped, for example, */5 in the minutes field means "every 5 minutes", or 0:00, 0;05, 0:10, etc.

To learn more on how to schedule Gateway Backups, refer the page on Gateway Scheduled Backups. 

Gateway Audit Profile

The auditing system in Ignition records actions originating from the Gateway, Perspective and Vision projects. For a list of actions that are logged by the auditing system, see Auditing Actions Reference.

Gateway Scripting Project

The Gateway Scripting Project is a Project in which Gateway-scoped scripts with no project affiliation can access user script libraries.

Error Reporting Settings

When an error occurs in the Client or Designer, the users can click a link on the Details tab to report the error via email.

These settings define how the errors are reported.

Multicast Settings

These properties allow the Gateway to broadcast information about itself via multicast UDP packets. This allows the Gateway to be discoverable by any components that are also listening to the same multicast address. For example, native client launchers listen on a multicast address to provide a list of available Gateways on the network. Verify that the send ports and receive ports are open on the Gateway machine in order to be able to broadcast multicast message.