To monitor and generate reports on federated Industrial IoT entities from Security Desk, you must install the Industrial IoT plugin on the Federation™ host and activate the plugin role at least once.
Before you begin
- Understand how Federation™ works.
- Deploy the Industrial IoT plugin at each remote site.
What you should know
- Industrial IoT entities can only be configured from their local system.
To configure federated Industrial IoT entities, you must use the Remote configuration task.
- The Federation™ host cannot write on data points of federated IoT devices.
- Security Desk running on the Federation™ host cannot display in a tile or on a map, the panel showing the data point values of a federated IoT device.