// The configuration settings file consists of two objects:
// 1) The 'Defaults' object, which defines defaults for the telemetry configuration
// 2) An array 'EndpointSpecific' of endpoint specific configuration
// Both objects are optional and if they are not specified, then OPC Publisher uses
// its internal default configuration:
// {
// "NodeId": "i=2058",
// "ApplicationUri": "urn:myopcserver",
// "DisplayName": "CurrentTime",
// "Value": {
// "Value": "10.11.2017 14:03:17",
// "SourceTimestamp": "2017-11-10T14:03:17Z"
// }
// }
// The 'Defaults' object in the sample below, are similar to what publisher is
// using as its internal default telemetry configuration.
{
"Defaults": {
// The first two properties ('EndpointUrl' and 'NodeId' are configuring data
// taken from the OpcPublisher node configuration.
"EndpointUrl": {
// The following three properties can be used to configure the 'EndpointUrl'
// property in the JSON message send by publisher to IoTHub.
// Publish controls if the property should be part of the JSON message at all.
"Publish": false,
// Pattern is a regular expression, which is applied to the actual value of the
// property (here 'EndpointUrl').
// If this key is ommited (which is the default), then no regex matching is done
// at all, which improves performance.
// If the key is used you need to define groups in the regular expression.
// Publisher applies the regular expression and then concatenates all groups
// found and use the resulting string as the value in the JSON message to
//sent to IoTHub.
// This example mimics the default behaviour and defines a group,
// which matches the conplete value:
"Pattern": "(.*)",
// Here some more exaples for 'Pattern' values and the generated result:
// "Pattern": "i=(.*)"
// defined for Defaults.NodeId.Pattern, will generate for the above sample
// a 'NodeId' value of '2058'to be sent by publisher
// "Pattern": "(i)=(.*)"
// defined for Defaults.NodeId.Pattern, will generate for the above sample
// a 'NodeId' value of 'i2058' to be sent by publisher
// Name allows you to use a shorter string as property name in the JSON message
// sent by publisher. By default the property name is unchanged and will be
// here 'EndpointUrl'.
// The 'Name' property can only be set in the 'Defaults' object to ensure
// all messages from publisher sent to IoTHub have a similar layout.
"Name": "EndpointUrl"
},
"NodeId": {
"Publish": true,
// If you set Defaults.NodeId.Name to "ni", then the "NodeId" key/value pair
// (from the above example) will change to:
// "ni": "i=2058",
"Name": "NodeId"
},
// The MonitoredItem object is configuring the data taken from the MonitoredItem
// OPC UA object for published nodes.
"MonitoredItem": {
// If you set the Defaults.MonitoredItem.Flat to 'false', then a
// 'MonitoredItem' object will appear, which contains 'ApplicationUri'
// and 'DisplayNode' proerties:
// "NodeId": "i=2058",
// "MonitoredItem": {
// "ApplicationUri": "urn:myopcserver",
// "DisplayName": "CurrentTime",
// }
// The 'Flat' property can only be used in the 'MonitoredItem' and
// 'Value' objects of the 'Defaults' object and will be used
// for all JSON messages sent by publisher.
"Flat": true,
"ApplicationUri": {
"Publish": true,
"Name": "ApplicationUri"
},
"DisplayName": {
"Publish": true,
"Name": "DisplayName"
}
},
// The Value object is configuring the properties taken from the event object
// the OPC UA stack provided in the value change notification event.
"Value": {
// If you set the Defaults.Value.Flat to 'true', then the 'Value'
// object will disappear completely and the 'Value' and 'SourceTimestamp'
// members won't be nested:
// "DisplayName": "CurrentTime",
// "Value": "10.11.2017 14:03:17",
// "SourceTimestamp": "2017-11-10T14:03:17Z"
// The 'Flat' property can only be used for the 'MonitoredItem' and 'Value'
// objects of the 'Defaults' object and will be used for all
// messages sent by publisher.
"Flat": false,
"Value": {
"Publish": true,
"Name": "Value"
},
"SourceTimestamp": {
"Publish": true,
"Name": "SourceTimestamp"
},
// 'StatusCode' is the 32 bit OPC UA status code
"StatusCode": {
"Publish": false,
"Name": "StatusCode"
// 'Pattern' is ignored for the 'StatusCode' value
},
// 'Status' is the symbolic name of 'StatusCode'
"Status": {
"Publish": false,
"Name": "Status"
}
}
},
// The next object allows to configure 'Publish' and 'Pattern' for specific
// endpoint URLs. Those will overwrite the ones specified in the 'Defaults' object
// or the defaults used by publisher.
// It is not allowed to specify 'Name' and 'Flat' properties in this object.
"EndpointSpecific": [
// The following shows how a endpoint specific configuration can look like:
{
// 'ForEndpointUrl' allows to configure for which OPC UA server this
// object applies and is a required property for all objects in the
// 'EndpointSpecific' array.
// The value of 'ForEndpointUrl' must be an 'EndpointUrl' configured in
// the publishednodes.json confguration file.
"ForEndpointUrl": "opc.tcp://<your_opcua_server>:<your_opcua_server_port>/<your_opcua_server_path>",
"EndpointUrl": {
// We overwrite the default behaviour and publish the
// endpoint URL in this case.
"Publish": true,
// We are only interested in the URL part following the 'opc.tcp://' prefix
// and define a group matching this.
"Pattern": "opc.tcp://(.*)"
},
"NodeId": {
// We are not interested in the configured 'NodeId' value,
// so we do not publish it.
"Publish": false
// No 'Pattern' key is specified here, so the 'NodeId' value will be
// taken as specified in the publishednodes configuration file.
},
"MonitoredItem": {
"ApplicationUri": {
// We already publish the endpoint URL, so we do not want
// the ApplicationUri of the MonitoredItem to be published.
"Publish": false
},
"DisplayName": {
"Publish": true
}
},
"Value": {
"Value": {
// The value of the node is important for us, everything else we
// are not interested in to keep the data ingest as small as possible.
"Publish": true
},
"SourceTimestamp": {
"Publish": false
},
"StatusCode": {
"Publish": false
},
"Status": {
"Publish": false
}
}
}
]
}