[00:00] In this lesson, we'll explore the Ignition gateway webpage. This interface allows us to manage the gateway. To reach the webpage, direct your web browser to the gateway server's IP address, followed by colon 8088. Alternatively, local host colon 8088 can be used when accessing from the server itself. 80 88 is the default HTTP port, so unless this has changed, you should be able to access the gateway this way. Initially, we're brought to this welcome page within the home tab. Here you can find all of the downloadable software for creating and launching ignition applications. There's the designer launcher for creating different projects and launchers for viewing vision and perspective apps. You can learn more about each of them in our "Launching Ignition" Inductive University course. If you have any questions while you're learning about ignition, then some helpful resources are available on this welcome page, like a link to our user manual.

[01:04] We have an active community on our forums that will also be able to point you in the right direction. If you're looking for some inspiration or you'd like to share or import project resources, then check out the Ignition exchange. This page gives us a lot of what we need to start our ignition journey, but there's certainly more to cover. I'm currently not logged in, so all I'm going to get is this home tab. Let's log in with the initial administrator account that was set during the commissioning stage of this gateway. We'll click log in on the top right of the screen here. I'll pass in my username and password and then click on continue. We can see after logging in that we get this gateway overview showing the name of the gateway and the version of Ignition that's installed. Additionally, more tabs become available on the left hand side. I won't go over exactly how all of them work in detail since we have many lessons to explain their specific uses. I'll simply go through each one of them and explain their purpose so you are better oriented in this environment.

[02:06] Starting with the platform tab, this is where you'll be able to configure and manage the core functionality that Ignition has to offer. Of course, there's a lot built in, so this overview page is helpful for viewing what is available. In fact, all tabs come with an overview page providing similar, helpful dashboards with available links to easily navigate the gateway from one page. In the case of the platform overview, you could click on any of these configure links and you'll be directed to the specific settings page. I'll click on the one next to security zones, and you can see I'm automatically brought to the security zone section under security in the platform tab. I could have navigated here manually if I knew where to look, but the overview is always nice in case I can't quite remember where something is. Couple the overview pages with the available search bar at the top, and you should be able to find your way around very easily. More specific to the platform tab is this system section where you are able to change general gateway settings, expand upon the core functionality with module management, save and restore the state of your gateway with backups, et cetera.

[03:12] These settings can affect the entire system, so we of course wouldn't want just anybody to mess around here. This security section provides the ability to manage users and what they will have access to, whether that be here in the gateway or other areas like the designer. Beyond user management, there's additional security features like managing secrets and generating API keys. While ignition has a lot of built-in features, it's also excellent at connecting to external systems such as databases, PLCs, or OPC-UA servers. These are established in the connections tab. This dashboard provides a glance at how many are established with links to their configuration pages. Maybe the architecture of your ignition environment requires multiple gateways to be connected. You might think we would be able to manage those connections here in the connections tab, but those settings are listed under network.

[04:05] The overview here gives us stats related to those gateway connections, and it also provides this live diagram of the network. Right now, I don't have any connections, so all we see is this gateway that I'm currently logged into. So we are able to create and manage those connections under this gateway network section, and once they are established, additional network features become available in the form of enterprise administration. This allows users to control and monitor any number of ignition gateways from a central gateway. Beyond the gateway network connections the network tab also provides network settings for individual gateways, such as managing web server traffic, enabling SSL, and creating email profiles. Once your ignition environments core platform functions, external connections and network are established, you can then utilize the services tab to enable and manage automated industrial processes. The overview provides a list of these services showing how many of them are active and if they're executing or running into errors.

[05:04] You can configure settings related to historizing tag data, directing alarm events, and scheduling reports. We've covered a lot of moving parts when trying to set up an ignition system, but how do we tell how well it's doing? There's of course the overview pages we've covered, but the most comprehensive dashboard lives in the diagnostics tab. This overview page gives us a lot of what we've seen before, all in one page. We see the gateway information again, in this gateway overview. There's gateway network information to the right side of this. Then there's this connection list showing all of the systems Ignition is connected to. Just like we've seen in other areas you could click on any one of these connections and you'll be brought directly to the relevant page. Finally, there's this button down here to generate a diagnostics bundle, which downloads different sets of diagnostic information at once. To learn more about what's in the bundle, I've included a link below this video to the user manual page about this diagnostics tab. Arguably, the most important page in this listing is the logs page.

[06:06] This keeps track of many gateway events and is commonly used to troubleshoot issues. There are a few dashboards for tracking gateway performance, and if you'd like to create your own, then you can utilize this metrics dashboard to build a custom set of information. By effectively utilizing the gateway's, various tabs, you can thoroughly manage and monitor your ignition environment.