Introduction
Nexeed IAS Ops Team
See IAS OPS Team - Work Item & Request Flow for how to contact the operations team.
General
The module Information Router is a service which allows machines to communicate with Nexeed IAS. A machine can be a device, control system or PLC.
A machine sends messages to a single endpoint provided by the Information Router. Subsequently, based on the configuration, the Information Router forwards the incoming messages to the relevant Nexeed IAS modules.
In order to successfully forward the message, the Information Router authenticates the machine with MACMA (device authentication). Additionally, the Information Router authenticates itself with MACMA (service authentication).
Key features
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Receiving messages from machines,
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Configuring target Nexeed IAS service endpoints,
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Route messages to target Nexeed IAS services endpoints
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Device authentication with MACMA,
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Service authentication with MACMA.
Target audience
Target audience of this document is:
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Machine programmer:
The machine programmer programs or configures the machine to send messages to the endpoint of the Information Router. The prerequisites for that are described in the chapter Machine Interface. -
IAS user:
The IAS user is the application engineer in the on premise context and the DevOps engineer in cloud context. They configure the Information Router by editing the parameters in the deployment environment. After deployment these parameters are handed over to the Docker Container in which the service runs as Docker environment variables.
A web-based user interface is planned for a future version.
The configuration parameters are described in Setup and configuration.
In this document, both the application engineer and DevOps engineer will be referred to as user.