AVEVA Gateway Data Publisher in AVEVA Unified Engineering

In this release of Unified Engineering, AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher is available as an optional component.

AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher enables users of AVEVA Gateways to publish data to AVEVA™ Asset Information Management through AVEVA™ Ingestion Service. Therefore, enabling AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher should only be considered if there are plans to use Unified Engineering with AVEVA™ Asset Information Management.

Refer to the AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher product documentation available from the AVEVA Support and Knowledge Center (https://softwaresupport.aveva.com/) for further details.

Unified Engineering is a managed service with protected access to the Gateways server. Therefore, to enable AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher, interaction between the customer admin and AVEVA is required as described in the process below:

• Customer Admin

  • Raise a support case via the AVEVA Knowledge & Support Center with the following details:

    • Request to enable Gateway Data Publisher

      This should be in the description of the support case

    • CONNECT Account

      This is the name of the account from the profile icon in CONNECT

    • CONNECT folder in which the Unified Engineering Environment is deployed

      If Unified Engineering is deployed at folder level (rather than account level), this is the name of the CONNECT folder in which Unified Engineering has been enabled

    • CONNECT folder in which AVEVA™ Asset Information Management - Advanced is deployed

      If AVEVA™ Asset Information Management - Advanced is deployed at folder level (rather than account level), this is the name of the CONNECT folder in which AVEVA™ Asset Information Management - Advanced has been enabled

    • Email address of Customer Admin(s)

      Email addresses of customer admins used by AVEVA Cloud DevOps in steps below to securely acquire and share Access Tokens

• AVEVA Support 24-7

  • Triage Support case and forward to AVEVA Cloud DevOps for processing

• AVEVA Cloud DevOps

  • Send email to Customer Admins with instructions on how to generate an AIM-A Service Access Token (Data Pipeline)

• Customer Admin

  • Sends the AVEVA™ Asset Information Management - Advanced Service Access Token (Data Pipeline) securely in an encrypted email to AVEVA Cloud DevOps

• AVEVA Cloud DevOps

  • Applies the token to the AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher Server service

Unified Engineering users assigned the Admin Superuser CONNECT role have permissions to modify the AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher service configuration files via file explorer in their workspace.

The configuration files are located under the folder P:\AVEVFiles\Miscellaneous\GDP\

When the AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher component is deployed for the first time, it provides a sample folder structure with predefined configurations. The configuration should be adjusted to your specific requirements as follows:

• Edit or create any number of IngestionCfg*.json configurations that will define the rules for publishing the data from P drive as well as target DefaultEndPointUri and DefaultAssetId

• Edit InitGdpCfg.json file and configure any number of AVEVA™ Gateway Data Publisher instances that will be watching various locations of P drive.

Depending on the application gateways in use, the following are the recommended locations of watching locations: