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Administer an Azure IoT Central application | Microsoft Docs |
As an adminstrator, how to administer your Azure IoT Central application |
viv-liu |
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04/16/2018 |
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iot-central |
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After you create an IoT Central application, you can go to the Administration section to:
- Manage application settings
- Manage users
- Manage roles
- View your bill
- Convert your Trial to Pay-As-You-Go
- Export data
- Manage device connection
- Use access tokens
To access and use the Administration section, you must be in the Administrator role for an Azure IoT Central application. If you create an Azure IoT Central application, you're automatically assigned to the Administrator role for that application. The Manage Users section in this article explains more about how to assign the Administrator role to other users.
In the Application Settings page, you can change the name and URL of your application, then select Save.
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If you change your URL, your old URL can be taken by another Azure IoT Central customer. If that happens, it is no longer available for you to use. When you change your URL, the old URL no longer works, and you need to notify your users about the new URL to use.
To change the application image, see Prepare and upload images to your Azure IoT Central application.
You can create a copy of any application, minus any device instances, device data history, and user data. The copy will be a Pay-As-You-Go application that you'll be charged for. You can't create a Trial application in this way.
Click the Copy button. In the dialog box, enter the details for the new Pay-As-You-Go application. Then click the Copy button to confirm that you want to proceed. Learn more about the fields in this form in Create an application quickstart.
After the app copy operation succeeds, you can go to the new application that was created by copying your application using the link that appears.
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Copying an application also copies the definition of rules and actions. But because users who have access to your original app aren't copied to the copied app, you have to manually add users to actions such as email for which users are a prerequisite. In general it is a good idea to check the rules and actions to make sure they are up to date in the new app.
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To delete an application, you must also have permissions to delete resources in the Azure subscription you chose when you created the application. To learn more, see Use role-based access control to manage access to your Azure subscription resources.
Use the Delete button to permanently delete your IoT Central application. Doing this will permanently delete all data that's associated with that application.
Every user must have a user account before they can sign in and access an Azure IoT Central application. Microsoft Accounts (MSAs) and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) accounts are supported in Azure IoT Central. Azure Active Directory groups aren't currently supported in Azure IoT Central.
For more information, see Microsoft account help and Quickstart: Add new users to Azure Active Directory.
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To add a user to an IoT Central application, go to the Users page in the Administration section.
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To add a user, on the Users page, choose + Add user.
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Choose a role for the user from the Role drop-down menu. Learn more about roles in the Manage roles section of this article.
[!NOTE] To add users in bulk, enter the user IDs of all the users you'd like to add separated by semi-colons. Choose a role from the Role drop-down menu. Then select Save.
Roles can't be changed after they are assigned. To change the role that's assigned to a user, delete the user, and then add the user again with a different role.
To delete users, select one or more check boxes on the Users page. Then select Delete.
Roles enable you to control who within your organization can perform various tasks in IoT Central. There are three roles you can assign to users of your application.
Users in the Administrator role have access to all functionality in an application.
The user who creates an application is automatically assigned to the Administrator role. There must always be at least one user in the Administrator role.
Users in the Application Builder role can do everything in an application except administer the application. This means builders can create, edit, and delete device templates and devices, manage device sets, and run analytics and jobs. Builders won't have access to the Administration section of the application.
Users in the Application Operator role can't make changes to device templates and can't administer the application. This means operators can adding and deleting devices, manage device sets, and run analytics and jobs. Operators won't have access to the Application Builder and Administration pages.
To view your bill, go to the Billing page in the Administration section. The Azure billing page opens in a new tab, where you can see the bill for each of your Azure IoT Central applications.
You can convert your Trial application to a Pay-As-You-Go application. Here are the differences between these types of applications.
- Trial applications are free for 7 days before they expire. They can be converted to Pay-As-You-Go at any time before they expire.
- Pay-As-You-Go applications are charged per device, with the first 5 devices free.
Learn more about pricing on the Azure IoT Central pricing page.
To complete this self-service process, follow these steps:
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Go to the Billing page in the Administration section.
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Click Convert to Pay-As-You-Go.
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Select the appropriate Azure Active Directory, and then the Azure subscription to use for your Pay-As-You-Go application.
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After you click Convert, your application is now a Pay-As-You-Go application and you start getting billed.
You can enable Continuous data export to export measurements, devices, and device templates data to your Azure Blob storage account. Learn more about how to export your data.
Connect devices at scale in your application using the keys and certificates here. Learn more about connecting devices.
Generate access tokens to use them in developer tools. Currently there is one developer tool available which is the IoT Central explorer for monitoring device messages and changes in propreties and settings. Learn more about the IoT Central explorer.
IoT Central Azure Resource Manager SDK packages are available for Node, Python, C#, Ruby, Java, and Go. These libraries support control plane operations for IoT Central, which enable you to create, list, update, or delete IoT Central applications. They also provide helpers for dealing with authentication and error handling that is specific to each language.
You can find examples of how to use the Azure Resource Manager SDKs at https://github.com/emgarten/iotcentral-arm-sdk-examples.
To learn more, take a look at these packages on GitHub.
Now that you've learned how to administer your Azure IoT Central application, here is the suggested next step:
[!div class="nextstepaction"] Set up the device template