How to set up Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT Broker and connect a client
In this How-to we will cover the first steps in connecting a client to your Mosquitto broker.
What you need
- An installation of the Mosquitto Broker on your ctrlX CORE
- A valid license
- The MQTT Explorer
For a quick introduction to Mosquitto click here.
First steps
After your installation, Mosquitto is available over your Navigation Menu on the left side of your Browser. Click it and open the “Management Center”.
The Management Center (MMC) allows managing Mosquitto via a Browser UI.
Gather real time information of your broker and set up the dynamic security. If you are used to working with a terminal, there is one embedded in the MMC.
To get started with a connection, you first need to create a client. Use the left side navigation and click on “Clients”. As you can see, there are no existing clients. Create one and click “Save”.
Clients need permissions to operate. These are administered via “Roles”. Without any assigned role, a client is not able to perform any action on Mosquitto. There are a couple of prebuild roles, which you can choose from, or you can create your own.
For now, choose the role “client”, which allows full publish and subscribe capabilities. Now, we are already set to connect to Mosquitto.
Open the MQTT Explorer, use the IP of your CORE and the port 8883 to connect.
Choose TLS on and uncheck the “Validate certificate” option.
Don´t forget to use the username and password from the client you just created.
When the connection is established, you can now send data to a topic and see it arrive in your MMC topic tree. Use the right side of the MQTT Explorer to set a topic and a payload to be send. After sending it, you are able to see it in the topic tree of your MMC.
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