Ignition Edge Store and Forward not transmitting

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Hello! We are trying to test out the store and forward capabilities of our edge devices in the field running ignition edge.
The issue that I am coming across (possibly due to lack of experience) , is that the manuals reference using the main ignition historian or a SQL database, but our historian is located within OSI PI. We use an MQTT Broker that has a PI Connector that sends our Ignition Edge tags into PI.
What are the parameters to get S&F to work properly? How do others test to see if it works how it should? our PLC's are on fiber so would I just turn off the MQTT connection between the Moxa and the broker in order to test S&F??

Another thing to note is that we can get it to work properly for payloads that are a couple hours, but larger payloads just do NOT get sent through
I attached a simple network diagram.

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Ignition’s Store and Forward subsystem is Ignition-only, either to an Ignition database connection (on Standard Ignition) or via Edge Sync Services (on Ignition Edge). MQTT is entirely separate, and anything available would be under Cirrus Link’s Transmission module features.

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The MQTT modules also support S&F (incl. a ring buffer) with SparkPlug B. If PI supports SparkPlug B, it must be configured as the primary application

Clumsy is a tool which can be used to simulate a connection issue to the broker or from the broker to the primary application. clumsy, an utility for simulating broken network for Windows Vista / Windows 7 and above

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