Stand alone file watcher example agent #2959
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| ## Stand Alone File Watcher example agent | |||
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| This python script will listen to the specified files and publish updates to specific topics on the remote instance. | |||
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| vctl auth keypair | ||
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| Update settings.py with your public and secret keys |
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| Update settings.py with this server key | ||
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| 5. Update the config section of settings.py with the files you want this agent to watch for and |
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remove you from this sentence. the agent. or the standalonewatcher agent.
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| Provide the IP of the volttron instance when prompted for | ||
| address[]: and provide public key of standalone agent when prompted |
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the ip address should be where the agent is running from not the instance's vip address. they can leave it blank to accept all
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credentials should be the publickey generated above in the keypair command
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as a shortcut you could do vctl auth add --user_id identity_of_agent --credentials publickey_generated_above
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| 4. Add this standalone agent to volttron auth entry using this command: | ||
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| vctl auth add |
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a shortcut is vctl auth add --user_id identity --credentials generated_publickey
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| Provide the IP of the volttron instance when prompted for | ||
| address[]: and provide public key of standalone agent when prompted |
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the ip address is that of the agent, not the instance. If they were on different machines, this would matter more. Can be blank
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@craig8 updated the README |
Description
Added a README with detailed setup instructions and updated comments within settings.py to use the more modern commands.
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This change is a documentation update
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