This does not affect project or client scoped scripts. If you wanted to take advantage of Gateway Events Scripts and Tag Events Scripts with an Edge installation, you can do so through the use of the Compute Plugin. Gateway ScriptingĪll Gateway level scripting is disabled including Gateway Event Scripts and Tag Event scripts. The Status and Configure pages of the Gateway Webpage have been updated to remove these features and reduce confusion. Despite this restriction, some "historical" storage can happen inside of Ignition. This means that any database queries or bindings will not work, and the user sources that require a database connection will not be available. Database Accessĭatabase access is disabled. Ignition comes with unlimited Tags, Clients, and database connections, while Ignition Edge comes with unlimited Tags, two Clients (one local and one remote) and no database connectivity. Ignition and Ignition Edge share the same basic platform, but Edge is a leaner version of Ignition made specifically for use in on edge-of-network devices.
An Edge Gateway can only failover to another Edge Gateway (not a standard Ignition Gateway).īecause Edge is a lean solution, it does have some functionality limitations compared to full Ignition.
Two Edge Gateways can be set up with redundancy. For more information, see Edge Gateway Config section. The default project name is "Edge", however a s of version 8.0.8, the Edge project can be renamed.
This project is created automatically if it did not exist, and it cannot be removed. ProjectsĮdge installations have just one project. Once two devices have been configured, the “add device” UI on the Gateway’s Devices config page will be hidden. It cannot be configured.īy default, Edge Gateways can have two device connections. The Edge alarm journal and audit log can sync under EAM.Īudit Logs - Like the Alarms, the Audit log is limited to one week of local storage. There are limited configuration options the Alarm Journal can be accessed via the Edge Alarm Journal profile. You can learn more about Tag history here.Īlarm Journal - The alarm journal will store all alarm events locally for one week of events. An Edge Gateway can only have one realtime Tag provider and one Edge historian.
Pruning will automatically happen, and the historian is automatically enabled and not configurable. Tag History - Up to one week or 10 million data points of history can be stored locally. One Week of Internal StorageĪn Edge installation can store certain historical data inside Ignition. Adding the IIoT plugin extends this functionality. This means Edge can connect to other outside OPC servers as a client to fetch data, but can not act as an OPC UA server for outside programs to connect to. OPC UA Module and DriversĮdge can create OPC UA client connections. The internal OPC UA server in the Edge Gateway acts only as a client and not as a server.
The following features are available on all Edge Gateways, license or unlicensed.
Additionally, once a license has been activated on an Edge Gateway, the trial time for any unlicensed Edge plugins will be removed, and you will not be able to access them. However, you can activate a full Ignition license on an Edge Gateway, but this is not recommended due to the limitations of the Edge platform. The Edge license will not work if you attempt to activate it on an Ignition Gateway as it is only set up to license an Edge Gateway. The new Edge version of Ignition has a separate license that works in the same way as a traditional Ignition license. Edge can also be installed on virtually any industrial device. Ignition Edge comes pre-installed on a range of edge-of-the-network devices that are IIoT ready out of the box. Limited to one project, one Tag Provider, and one Historical Tag Provider Gateway Network connections (actual Gateway Network services are enabled with IIoT, EAM, and Sync Services)
With support for ARM processors, Ignition Edge can run on devices like a Raspberry Pi or the latest generation of edge-of-network devices.Ĭore functionality for Edge includes the following:Īll Inductive Automation OPC UA drivers (AB, Siemens, Modbus, Omron, DNP3, UDP/TCP, serial, BACnet)
Ignition Edge is a lightweight, lean version of Ignition with software solutions designed for devices used in the field and OEM devices at the edge of the network. Ignition Edge solutions work on a wide variety of operating systems such as Linux, Windows (any version), and macOS. Deprecated pages for earlier functionality can be found here. Ignition Edge was revised and expanded significantly as of release 8.0.10.