This is a Rexroth unofficial app for the ctrlX Automation platform. If you are looking for offical apps from Rexroth, have a look at the ctrlX Store.
This app is a bundle of Node RED, InfluxDB and Grafana. The main objective of this app is to give users a simpler and a faster way to create a condition monitoring solution.
Currently in version 1.3.1, we bundle the following software versions:
- node-red v3.0.2
- influxdb v1.8.10
- grafana v9.2.2And these are the nodes pre-installed on Node RED:
- node-red-dashboard
- node-red-contrib-influxdb
- node-red-contrib-ctrlx-automation
- node-red-contrib-modbus
- node-red-debuggerWithin the apps installation page. Go to settings.
As this app is not official for Bosch Rexroth, you need to allow installation from unknown sources.
After a successful installation, you will see an IoT Apps menu entry on the left side of your screen.
As of v1.3.0, Admin authentication mecanism is enabled. The app ships with default boschrexroth as user and password, but it is required for the user to change it right after installing. Please, refer to the NodeRED official documentation on how to set up your own user and password.
As of v1.3.0, InfluxDB HTTP authentication mecanism is enabled. This means that, right after installing the app, it is required to create an admin user to manage your database instance. Refer to Influx official documentation on how to manage users.
Terminal access trough SSH is disabled by default on ctrlX Core. So because of that, you'll need to use the exec node from Node RED. I've already set the path so you don't have to. Import the influx-db-management.json from the local storage in your Node-RED flow editor, deploy and use Node RED Dashboard on path <ctrlx_ip_address>/node-red/ui/.
If you try to insert a value to a database before configuring users, or, if you do not set the admin user correctly, the following error will pop up. Keep in mind that after creating the admin user, you need to update the influx node credentials inside Node RED.
ERR: error authorizing query: create admin user first or disable authentication
Warning: It is possible this error is due to not setting a database.Please set a database with the command "use <database>".