Gateway Network Qs - Remote Tag Providers and Scripting across gateways, scaling issues

Ignition
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Something that is kind of a pain is making sure that UDT definitions are the same across multiple gateways that all act as remote tag providers. Is there a feature that I am unaware that allows there to be a parent Definition on a centralized gateway to be passed along to other gateways?

IMO the remote gateways don’t scale very well if you have to manually copy everything across them - views, scripts, tag definitions. It would be nice if there was a gateway parent definition so large projects would scale easier. Maybe I’m just missing something, or perhaps this is already a feature request.

Any feedback or helpful hints are appreciated.

Thanks,

Trent

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You need the EAM module to do all of that, not just the gateway network connections.
https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/Enterprise+Administration+Module?src=sidebar

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You can install EAM on gateways, reset trial mode, and test things out to make sure it does what you want. I hear your pain on UDTs and haven’t tried this yet, but suspect the send tags EAM task could be used to do what you’re looking for.

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Ok we do have that module, I’ll take a look

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Good luck, and let us know how it goes. If it works well to sync UDTs, I should move implementing this up higher on my list.

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I just went down this path. EAM Send Tags definitely works, but is a bit of a pain to setup and maintain if you have a lot of unique provider names. The solution @Colby.Clegg floats here sounds ideal: