Connectivity Settings for MDE

before using cloud management, an administrator must configure the connectivity settings that allow manufacturing connect to communicate with manufacturing data engine (mde) you set configurations in the admin console cloud credentials and key rotation go to admin console > settings > cloud to configure gcp authentication and key management cloud credentials controls how manufacturing connect authenticates with google cloud platform choose one of the following authentication methods gcp sa key authentication paste or upload a gcp service account key in json format use the validate button to verify the key before saving gcp workload identity federation (oidc) authenticate using workload identity federation instead of a service account key rotation sets the automatic rotation interval for the gcp service account key the default interval is 180 days to disable automatic rotation, set the value to 0 storage settings controls where manufacturing connect stores data, either locally or in google cloud storage (gcs) this page also contains the following mde specific connectivity settings pub/sub topics specify which pub/sub topics manufacturing connect uses to publish data to mde mde config manager api endpoint the api endpoint used by manufacturing connect to communicate with the mde config manager domain and ssl go to admin console > settings > domain/ssl to configure the domain and ssl certificate used by the manufacturing connect ui and its endpoints domain sets the base domain name for the manufacturing connect instance ssl settings manages the ssl certificate the following certificate types are available instance default certificate the default certificate issued for the instance let's encrypt webroot mode automatically provisioned certificate using let's encrypt digicert certificate managed through digicert iot trust manager user defined a custom certificate supplied by the administrator edge remote sets the endpoint that manufacturing connect edge uses to connect back to the manufacturing connect instance this can be a domain name or ip address