Thin-edge config files

Thin-edge.io requires config files for its operation. The tedge init command is used to create the base directory and other directories inside the base directory with appropriate user and permissions. The tedge-mapper and tedge-agent will create the config directories/files inside the base directory that are required for their operation on startup.

By default, the config files are created in /etc/tedge directory. To create the config files in a custom base directory one has to use --config-dir <Path to base directory> option.

Creating config files

The config files are created using tedge init as below.

sudo tedge init

All the directories will be created in the /etc/tedge directory. The directories layout looks as below.

ls -l /etc/tedge

Output

total 16
drwxrwxr-x 2 mosquitto mosquitto 4096 Jun 10 14:49 device-certs
drwxrwxr-x 2 mosquitto mosquitto 4096 Jun 10 14:49 mosquitto-conf
drwxrwxr-x 2 tedge     tedge     4096 Jun 10 14:49 operations
drwxrwxr-x 2 tedge     tedge     4096 Jun 10 14:49 plugins

Use the below command to create the config directories in a custom directory.

sudo tedge --config-dir /global/path/to/config/dir init

Now all the config directories will be created inside the /global/path/to/config/dir directory.

The directories and files that are required by the tedge-mapper are created as below.

sudo tedge-mapper c8y

ls -l /etc/tedge/operations/c8y

Output

total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 tedge tedge 0 Jun 14 14:37 c8y_Restart
-rw-r--r-- 1 tedge tedge 0 Jun 14 14:37 c8y_SoftwareUpdate

To create these directories in a custom directory, use --config-dir option as below.

sudo tedge-mapper --config-dir /global/path/to/config/dir c8y

The directories and files that are required by the tedge-agent are created on startup as follows:

ls -l /etc/tedge/.agent

Output

-rw-r--r-- 1 tedge tedge 0 Jun 15 11:51 /etc/tedge/.agent/current-operation

ls -l /var/tedge/

Output

drwxr-xr-x 2 tedge tedge 0 Jun 15 11:51 /var/tedge/file-transfer

To create these directories and files in a custom directory, use the --config-dir option as below as below.

sudo tedge-agent --config-dir /global/path/to/config/dir

Manage the configuration parameters

The configuration parameters can be set/unset/list in a config file as below

For example, the config parameter can be set as below.

sudo tedge config set c8y.url your.cumulocity.io

Now the configuration will be added into /etc/tedge/tedge.toml

Use the below command to set/unset/list configuration parameters in a config file that is present in a custom directory.

sudo tedge --config-dir /global/path/to/config/dir config set c8y.url your.cumulocity.io

Now the config will be set in /global/path/to/config/dir/tedge/tedge.toml

Manage the certificate

To create/remove/upload the certificate, one can use the below command.

sudo tedge cert create --device-id thinedge

Output

Certificate was successfully created

Find the certificates that are created as below.

ls -l /etc/tedge/device-certs/

Output

total 8
-r--r--r-- 1 mosquitto mosquitto 638 Jun 14 14:38 tedge-certificate.pem
-r-------- 1 mosquitto mosquitto 246 Jun 14 14:38 tedge-private-key.pem

Use the below command to create/remove/upload the certificate.

sudo tedge --config-dir /global/path/to/config/dir cert create --device-id thinedge

Find the certificates that are created as below.

ls -l /global/path/to/config/dir/tedge/device-certs/

Output

total 8
-r--r--r-- 1 mosquitto mosquitto 638 Jun 14 14:38 tedge-certificate.pem
-r-------- 1 mosquitto mosquitto 246 Jun 14 14:38 tedge-private-key.pem

Connecting to the cloud

Use thetedge connect c8y/az/aws command to connect to the cloud using the default configuration files that are present in /etc/tedge.

To connect to the cloud with config files that are present in a custom location use the tedge connect --config-dir <Path to custom dir> c8y/az/aws option.

This is a two step process.

Step 1: Update the mosquitto.conf

Since the bridge configuration files for Cumulocity IoT, Azure IoT Hub or AWS IoT will be created in a directory given through --config-dir, the path to the bridge configuration files (tedge-mosquitto.conf, c8y/az/aws-bridge.conf) must be found by mosquitto. So, the below line has to be added to your mosquitto.conf file manually.

file: /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf

include_dir /global/path/to/config/dir/tedge/mosquitto-conf

Step 2: tedge connect using a custom config directory

Use the below command to connect to Cumulocity IoT, Azure IoT Hub or AWS IoT cloud using --config-dir

sudo tedge --config-dir /global/path/to/config/dir connect c8y/az/aws

Here the path/to/config/dir is the directory where the configuration files are present.