VOLTTRON Config¶

The new volttron-cfg commands allows for the easy configuration of a VOLTTRON platform. This includes setting up the platform configuration, historian, VOLTTRON Central UI, and platform agent.

example volttron-cfg output:

Note

In this example, <user> represents the user’s home directory, and <localhost> represents the machine’s localhost.
The platform has been bootstrapped with rabbitmq enabled e.g. (python bootstrap.py –rabbitmq)

Your VOLTTRON_HOME currently set to: /home/<user>/.volttron

Is this the volttron you are attempting to setup? [Y]: y
What type of message bus (rmq/zmq)? [zmq]: rmq

The rmq message bus has a backward compatibility
layer with current zmq instances. What is the
zmq bus's vip address? [tcp://127.0.0.1]:
What is the port for the vip address? [22916]:
Is this instance web enabled? [N]: y
What is the hostname for this instance? (https) [https://<localhost>]:
What is the port for this instance? [8443]:
Is this an instance of volttron central? [N]: y
Configuring /home/<user>/volttron/services/core/VolttronCentral.
Enter volttron central admin user name: admin
Enter volttron central admin password:
Retype password:
Installing volttron central.
Should the agent autostart? [N]: y
Will this instance be controlled by volttron central? [Y]:
Configuring /home/<user>/volttron/services/core/VolttronCentralPlatform.
What is the name of this instance? [volttron1]:
What is the hostname for volttron central? [https://<localhost>]:
What is the port for volttron central? [8443]:
Should the agent autostart? [N]: y
Would you like to install a platform historian? [N]: y
Configuring /home/<user>/volttron/services/core/SQLHistorian.
Should the agent autostart? [N]: y
Would you like to install a master driver? [N]: y
Configuring /home/<user>/volttron/services/core/MasterDriverAgent.
Would you like to install a fake device on the master driver? [N]: y
Should the agent autostart? [N]: y
Would you like to install a listener agent? [N]: y
Configuring examples/ListenerAgent.
Should the agent autostart? [N]: y
Finished configuration!

You can now start the volttron instance.

If you need to change the instance configuration you can edit
the config file is at /home/<user>/.volttron/config