DCH Onboarding Process

The main steps to be followed for the onboarding process are below and are described in more detail in the sections of this document:

Step	Requirement	How	Requires DCH Access
1	Check network will allow connection between the gateway and the DCH MQTT broker.	Configured by LAN administrator using site network management tools	No
2	Identify the DCH data source username and password that the site data will be associated with.	Provided in DCH under the data source page.	Yes
3	Setup the MQTT publish connection to DCH (host: dataclearinghouse.org) and check connection.	Configured in the gateway.	No
4	Set up the MQTT topic under which the MQTT messages will be published.
5	Select the points in the gateway to be exported.
6	Configure the JSON messages with the required fields.
7	Check upload speed and queue sizes.
8	Initiate the upload.
9	Check the messages are arriving at the MQTT broker.	Configured via a PC.	No
10	Check that the datastreams in DCH are populating with data.	Datasource page in DCH	Yes
11	Check Gateway CPU usage.	Checked in the gateway.	No