Creating a TCP server - Industrial IoT 4.4.2.4

To monitor TCP client devices in Security Center, you must add a TCP server to the plugin that the devices can connect to.

1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Plugins task.
2. From the entity browser, select the Industrial IoT plugin role, and then click the Protocols tab.
3. From the list of protocols, select TCP Server, and then click Add TCP connector ().
4. In the Transport section, enter the following:

   Name

   The name that you want to apply to the device.

   Port

   The TCP port associated to the TCP server. This port is opened on the computer that hosts the Directory.

   End of message delimiter

   The characters used to segment the stream of data into multiple messages.

5. In the Data Format section, enter the following:

   Type

   The type of parsing that should be done on the segmented message. The only supported format is plain text.

   Encoding

   The encoding used to convert the TCP stream bytes into a string. Supported values are UTF-8 and ASCII.

   Create device automatically

   Check this box to have the server automatically created as a device on the Devices page. If the box is left unchecked, you must enter the Device ID regular expression for the server.

6. Click Apply.