Adding a ThingPark X IoT Flow connection

ThingPark X IoT Flow consists of asynchronous dataflows with built-in message queuing services designed to meet high availability, scalability and resiliency requirements for industrial deployments.

Also known as TPX IoT Flow, it provides a wide range of professionally-supported IoT connectors towards the leading IoT cloud platforms (Amazon AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, IBM Watson, ThingWorx, Yandex, Cumulocity and many others...) besides generic MQTT and HTTPS connections.

IoT Flow also provides a rich built-in catalog of payload drivers, in addition to supporting custom payload drivers. To learn more about TPX IoT Flow payload decoding capabilities, see Sending/receiving process for payloads using an IoT Flow engine.

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Follow these steps to add a new ThingPark X IoT Flow connection:

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For deployments using domains to segregate the user permissions, adding new ThingPark X IoT Flow connections can only be done by users that do not have an domain restrictions, administrators for instance.

1. Select Connections, and click ADD CONNECTION in the Connections page, or from Dashboard, go to the CONNECTIONS widget, and click .

   

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   If the permission segregation based on domains has been enabled by an Administrator user, ThingPark X IoT Flow is not available on this page in case your user account has domain restrictions.

2. Select ThingPark X IoT Flow.

   -> You will then be redirected to ThingPark X Iot Flow user interface and the following screen will display in another tab of your navigator:

   

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   Connectors flagged as «BETA» are functional but have not been widely used in production yet. Minor limitations or bugs might be encountered using them.

3. Click the type of connection that you want, then follow the step-by-step configuration guide of your connector. The new connection will be created with a ThingPark X logo .

   The most commonly used connector types are described in the following table. You may also see ThingPark X IoT Flow documentation for a full list of supported connector types.

   Connection type	To learn more, click
   Creating an MQTT connection	MQTT step-by-step guide
   Creating an HTTPS connection	HTTPS step-by-step guide
   Creating a Microsoft Azure IoT Hub connection	AZURE IoT Hub step-by-step guide
   Creating a Microsoft Azure IoT Central connection	AZURE IoT Central step-by-step guide
   Creating a Microsoft Azure Event Hubs connection	AZURE Events Hubs step-by-step guide
   Creating a Microsoft Teams connection	Teams step-by-step guide
   Creating an AWS IoT Core connection	AWS IoT step-by-step guide
   Creating an AWS Greengrass V2 connection	AWS Greengrass step-by-step guide
   Creating a HERE connection	HERE step-by-step guide
   Creating a ThingWorx connection	THINGWORX step-by-step guide
   Creating an IBM Watson connection	WATSON step-by-step guide
   Creating a Yandex connection	YANDEX step-by-step guide
   Creating an AMQP connection	AMQP step-by-step guide
   Creating a Cumulocity IoT connection	Cumulocity step-by-step guide
   Creating a Thingsboard connection	THINGSBOARD step-by-step guide
   Creating a Ginjer connection	GINJER step-by-step guide
   Creating a MODBUS connection	MODBUS step-by-step guide
   Creating a OPC-UA connection	OPC-UA step-by-step guide

   Support of MODBUS and UA connections

   • Self-hosted TPE: MODBUS and OPC-UA connections are only available for Appliance/VM deployments. Contact Actility support for more information about future support of MODBUS and OPC-UA connections for Kubernetes deployments.

   • TPE SaaS: MODBUS and OPC-UA connections are not available for TPE SaaS.

4. At this stage, your newly-added ThingPark X IoT Flow connection is cross-domain, that is to say, visible to all users regardless of their domain restrictions.

   If you want to restrict the visibility of this connection to authorized users only, you must associate it with the adequate Domains. To do this:

   1. Go back to the ThingPark Enterprise user interface, then click Connections for the left panel.
   2. Select your new TPX connection from the list and click its name to open it.
   3. Associate your connection with the required domains, as described in Viewing and editing a connection.