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.
Known Identities| VIP Identity | Agent/Feature | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| platform | ||
| 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 |