Vertebrate

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Installation:

• OPTIONAL for Frontend: create a Win11 or Server 2022 VM that can run VMs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/user-guide/enable-nested-virtualization)

• create a folder in C: called 10_Projects where all the project files will be (PLC; kafka,...)

• OPTIONAL for Frontend: download and install codesys control win to be able to program and engineer a PLC (https://store.codesys.com/en/codesys-control-win-sl-1.html)

• OPTIONAL for Frontend: install vscode (https://code.visualstudio.com/)

• install github desktop and subscribe to our repo and use VScode as the editor

• install docker desktop (https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/)

• download the Kafka UI container from Github (https://github.com/provectus/kafka-ui)

• Install Python from MS store

• Download Kafka Scala 2.13 to run the zookeeper and broker (https://kafka.apache.org/downloads) - currently apps running from the terminal

• for Kafka: the folders must be like this:

  • for Kafka zookeper properties: dataDir=C:/10_Projects/Kafka/zookeeper
  • for KAFKA BROKER properties: log.dirs=C:/10_Projects/Kafka/kafka-logs

• install/update Java JavaSetup8u421

• OPTIONAL for Frontend: install UAexpert OPC viewer to be able to see and manupliate PLC data for testing

for Vertebrate project, we need extra libraries on terminal run:

• pip install opcua confluent_kafka
• pip install Flask

Running the Program

--------------Kafka - Terminal -------------- C:\10_Projects\Kafka\kafka

• .\bin\windows\zookeeper-server-start.bat .\config\zookeeper.properties
• .\bin\windows\kafka-server-start.bat .\config\server.properties

--------------Kafka UI - Docker -------------- Run the Docker for the Kafka UI

• Kafka UI Container: http://localhost:8080/

• Cluster ID = # was rYljdbXyQDSKW0su40H0kA

• from now on will use node :9092

--------------PLC - Taskbar --------------

• make sure the plc is running
• open UAexpert and subscribe to the programs tags

--------------Kafka producer and consumer - VScode --------------

• Run the producer PLCtoKafka python app
• Run the consumer App.py app
• open trending at http://localhost:5000/