Configuration

The main configuration files of the EMQ X Edge broker are under 'etc/' folder:

File	Description
etc/emqx.conf	EMQ X 3.0 Configuration File
etc/acl.conf	The default ACL File
etc/plugins/*.conf	Config Files of Plugins

Note:

Please visit EMQ X Doc (opens new window) for general EMQ X parameters configuration, say environment variables, log level & file, MQTT protocol parameters, MQTT listeners, and etc. Here only EMQ X Edge related parameters list.

EMQ X 3.0 Config Syntax

The EMQ X integrated with cuttlefish library, and uses a user-friendly k = v syntax for configuration file:

## Node name
node.name = emqx@127.0.0.1
...
## Max ClientId Length Allowed.
mqtt.max_clientid_len = 1024
...

The configuration files will be preprocessed and translated to Erlang app.config before the EMQ X broker started:

----------------------                                          3.0/schema/*.schema      -------------------
| etc/emqx.conf      |                   -----------------              \|/              | data/app.config |
|       +            | --> mergeconf --> | data/app.conf | -->  cuttlefish generate  --> |                 |
| etc/plugins/*.conf |                   -----------------                               | data/vm.args    |
----------------------                                                                   -------------------

----------------------Bridge Config Parameters ----------------------

EMQ X Edge can bridge to the remote broker, which can be deployed on cloud, such as aws, azure and so on. The following parameters configurations take aws as an example.

Refer to bridge between EMQ X nodes (opens new window) for detailed bridge tutorial. Config Bridge to a Remote Broker on aws:

Upgrade Guide: Since v3.2.0, the built-in bridging function of EMQ X Edge has been move to emqx﹣bridge﹣mqtt plug-in, and the bridging related configuration in the original emqx.conf needs to migrated to etc/plugins/emqx﹣bridge﹣mqtt.conf file. And after the configuration, the plug-in needs to be started to apply the configuration.

## Bridge address: host:port for remote broker on cloud
bridge.aws.address = 127.0.0.1:1883

## Protocol version of the bridge: mqttv3 | mqttv4 | mqttv5
bridge.aws.proto_ver = mqttv4

## The ClientId of the Edge 
bridge.aws.client_id = bridge_aws

## The Clean start flag of the Edge: true | false
bridge.aws.clean_start = true

## The username for the edge
bridge.aws.username = user

## The password for the edge
bridge.aws.password = passwd

## Mountpoint of the bridge
bridge.aws.mountpoint = bridge/aws/${node}/

## Topics which will be forwarded to the remote broker，for example, topic1/#
bridge.aws.forwards = topic1/#,topic2/#

## Bribge to remote server via SSL: on | off
bridge.aws.ssl = off

## PEM-encoded CA certificates of the bridge
bridge.aws.cacertfile = etc/certs/cacert.pem

## Edge client ssl Certfile of the bridge
bridge.aws.certfile = etc/certs/client-cert.pem

## Edge client ssl Keyfile of the bridge
bridge.aws.keyfile = etc/certs/client-key.pem

## SSL Ciphers used by the bridge
bridge.aws.ciphers = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384

## Ping interval (keepalive) of a down bridge
bridge.aws.keepalive = 60s

## TLS versions used by the bridge, seperated by ','
bridge.aws.tls_versions = tlsv1.2,tlsv1.1,tlsv1

## Subscriptions of the bridge topic
bridge.aws.subscription.1.topic = cmd/topic1

## qos of the above subscription: 0 | 1 | 2
bridge.aws.subscription.1.qos = 1

## Subscriptions of the bridge topic
bridge.aws.subscription.2.topic = cmd/topic2

## qos of the above subscription: 0 | 1 | 2
bridge.aws.subscription.2.qos = 1

## Start type of the bridg: manual | auto
bridge.aws.start_type = manual

## Bridge reconnection interval
bridge.aws.reconnect_interval = 30s

## Retry interval for bridge QoS1 message delivering
bridge.aws.retry_interval = 20s

## Inflight size
bridge.aws.max_inflight = 32

## Maximum number of messages in one batch when sending to remote borkers
## NOTE: when bridging via MQTT connection to remote broker, this config is only
####     used for internal message passing optimization as the underlying MQTT
####     protocol does not supports batching. In this case please use the default value.
bridge.aws.queue.batch_size = 32

## Base directory for replayq to store messages on disk.
## If this config entry is missing or set to undefined, replayq works in a mem-only manner.
bridge.aws.queue.replayq_dir = data/emqx_aws_bridge/

## Replayq segment size
bridge.aws.queue.replayq_seg_bytes = 10MB

Plugins' Etc Folder

## Dir of plugins' config
mqtt.plugins.etc_dir = etc/plugins/

## File to store loaded plugin names.
mqtt.plugins.loaded_file = data/loaded_plugins

Plugin Configuration Files

File	Description
etc/plugins/emqx_auth_username.conf	Username/Password Auth Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_auth_clientid.conf	ClientId Auth Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_auth_http.conf	HTTP Auth/ACL Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_auth_mysql.conf	MySQL Auth/ACL Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_coap.conf	CoAP Protocol Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_retainer.conf	Retainer Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_web_hook.conf	Web Hook Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_recon.conf	Recon Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_sn.conf	MQTT-SN Protocal Plugin Config
etc/plugins/emqx_stomp.conf	Stomp Protocl Plugin Config