Manage Integrations
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Integrations represent incoming connections from clients of different types. An integration always consists of a username and a password (credentials), which are required for the connection with your Heisenware account. Only connections with known and valid credentials will be granted access to your Heisenware account.
To monitor, create, and manage integrations, log in to your Heisenware account and go to the Integrations panel in the left sidebar. In this panel, you can view and manage usernames, passwords, types, online statuses, and last login details. Additionally, you can create and delete integrations, as well as toggle their activation.
There are two ways to add integrations to Heisenware:
Manually creating integrations is useful when you need to connect a client to your Heisenware account that you want to pre-configure with credentials.
To authorize an incoming connection manually:
Click Add Integration in the upper right corner in the Integrations panel.
Select the type of integration you'd like to add: MQTT, OPC UA, HTTP or VRPC.
Optionally change the randomly generated username and password, click into the respective field and modify it.
Add the credentials (username and password) to the respective client you want to integrate with your Heisenware account.
Another way to grant clients access to your Heisenware account is through smart onboarding. Smart onboarding lets you integrate clients without manually exchanging credentials.
To onboard a client using smart onboarding:
Initiate a connection request with your client.
Open the App Builder.
Click on the client you like to onboard. Please make sure to only onboard clients you trust.
Click on the onboarding icon again to stop the smart onboarding.
If there is no client appearing when the onboarding is activated, please make sure that the request is correctly initiated by your client.
Heisenware supports incoming connections from Edge Connectors, MQTT, HTTP, OPC UA and VRPC.
: In this method, you first generate credentials within the Integrations panel and then provide them to the client you wish to connect to your Heisenware account.
: With smart onboarding, the client initiates a connection request to your Heisenware account. Once you approve the connection, the clients credentials are automatically added to the integrations list.
Click on the start onboarding icon in the functions panel.
The Edge Connector is a proprietary Heisenware technology designed to seamlessly integrate files, protocols, databases and other systems within private networks with the cloud. While creating the Edge Connector, the integration entry is automatically made for you. Please refer to the for detailed instructions on crating and deploying them. Technically, an Edge Connector integrates via MQTT.
OPC UA clients can connect to Heisenwares using either method: manual credential creation or automatic connection through smart onboarding.
