VIP Known Identities
It is critical for systems to have known locations for receiving resources and services from in a networked environment. The following table details the vip identities that are reserved for VOLTTRON specific usage.
VIP Identity |
Agent/Feature |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
platform |
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platform.agent |
Platform Agent |
Used to allow the VolttronCentralAgent to control and individual platform |
platform.auth |
Platform Auth |
The identity of VolttronCentralAgent |
volttron.central |
VOLTTRON Central |
The identity of VolttronCentralAgent |
platform.historian |
User-Selected Historian |
An individual platform may have many historians available to it, however this is one available through Volttron Central. Note that this does not require a specific type of historian, just that it’s VIP Identity |
platform.topic_watcher |
TopicWatcher |
Agent which publishes alerts for topics based on timing thresholds |
platform.sysmon |
Sysmon |
Agent which publishes System Monitoring statistics |
platform.emailer |
Emailer |
Agent used by other agents on the platform to send email notifications |
platform.health |
Platform Health |
Agent health service |
platform.market |
Market Services |
The default identity for Market Service agents |
control |
Platform Control |
Control service facilitates the starting, stopping, removal, and installation of the agents on an instance. This agent is executing within the main volttron process |
control.connection |
Platform Control |
Short lived identity used by all of the volttron-ctl (vctl) commands |
pubsub |
Pub/Sub Router |
Pub/Sub subsystem router. Allows backward compatibility with version 4.1 |
platform_web |
Platform Web Service |
Facilitates HTTP/HTTPS requests from browsers and routes them to the corresponding agent for processing (will be renamed to platform.web in future update) |
keydiscovery |
Server Key Discovery |
Agent that enables discovery of server keys of remote platforms in a multi-platform setup |
platform.actuator |
Actuator |
Agent which coordinates sending control commands to devices |
config.store |
Configuration Store |
The configuration subsystem service agent on the platform. Includes scheduling |
platform.driver |
Platform Driver |
The default identity for the Platform Driver Agent (will be renamed Platform Driver Agent) which is responsible for coordinating device communication |
zmq.proxy.router |
Zero MQ Proxy |
ZeroMQ’s proxy service for Pub/Sub subsystem router. Allows backward compatibility between rmq and zmq instances of VOLTTRON |