Adding events to TCP devices - Industrial IoT 5.0.1.1 | BACnet | Modbus | OPC Client | SNMP Manager

Users can create events for TCP devices that do not hold a value, but are triggered every time their trigger condition is met.

1. From the Config Tool home page, open the Plugins task.
2. Select a TCP device.
3. In the Events section, click Add an event ().
   The Add an event dialog box opens.
4. Enter the event information:

   Name

   A name to identify the event.

   Regular expression

   Regular expression used to detect the presence of a particular event in the data message. No capture group is needed here.

5. If the event has arguments, click Add an argument () and enter the following in the dialog box that opens:
   

   Name

   A name to identify the argument.

   Regular expression

   Regular expression used to capture the value of the argument in the data message.

   Value type

   The data type of the value captured by the regular expression. For more information, see Data types used by the SNMP plugin.

6. Click Add to add another argument or click Add and Close.
7. Click Add to add another event or click Add and Close.
   The event is displayed in the Events section.
8. Click Apply.