Hello Everyone!
Im trying to connect my local gateway to a remote gateway. I tried researching about it but its only showing on how to establish an outgoing connection to the remote gateway but it didnt mention on how this is created.
Can you please elaborate on how to set-up a remote gateway in ignition.
Thank you.
So you are going to be in the world of the Gateway Network or GAN.
First read up here: Gateway Network - Ignition User Manual 8.1 - Ignition Documentation
Can you describe your architecture a bit? Depending on how you are setting things up, that will determine which way you setup the connections.
Do you mean creating the remote gateway itself? If so, no, there's no way within Ignition to cause Ignition to be installed somewhere else. A remote gateway is simply another Ignition gateway.
Thanks for the reply!
Sorry for being vague, let me give a bit of background of what im doing. Basically, we have an existing Pressure Process Control System Trainer (Amatrol T555) that has a Siemens S7-1200 PLC inside controlling the trainer and displaying the HMI.
The idea is to replicate this HMI and monitor the system remotely. So I created an ignition OPC UA server(in my laptop on ignition 8) and added the siemens s7-1200 PLC as device. After that, I head over to ignition designer and added the tags manually (because siemens have a different addressing scheme and it does not allow tag browsing so the tags cant be seen in OPC server ).
Currently, A laptop is connected to a switch where the PLC is also connected, so they can communicate to each other.
After I created the HMI in Ignition designer, I am now trying to figure out a way to send this HMI design to a cloud or atleast be available to a VPN.
After a couple of research, I saw that in some gateways from a couple of people that I watched have their URL as an IP address:Port Number, while mine is in localhost:Port Number. So I think I need to transfer my "local client" into a remote ignition gateway to be accessible by the ethnernet network that I will be connecting in no?
Forgive me for being naive as im currently new into this as this will be my project as an automation student.
Any form of help or reply will be greatly appreciated. Once again thank you.
Ignition doesn't produce a stand-alone HMI. An Ignition gateway does all of the communication to PLCs, and one or more HMIs talk to the one gateway to obtain current information to display.
For independent operation, you will always have to package the gateway. Ignition's "Edge Panel" product, while intended to be a replacement for an HMI, is in fact a gateway service and a UI for deployment together.
If aiming for non-independent operation, you have to provide a way for the end user to connect, live, to the gateway that is talking to your PLC. This might be a public web proxy or, carefully vetted for security, putting Ignition itself on a public address. But most commonly, setting up a VPN through which your gateway can be reached.