Connected Factory: how to deploy without the simulation?

Question

Hi,

As we're now ingesting telemetry msgs from real devices to the Connected Factory solution, I've been trying to deploy the solution without the Simulation. Mostly I've tried removing the simulation-related steps from the build.ps1 script and the corresponding settings from the ConnectedfactoryMapKey.json file, BUT haven't succeeded so far :/

How can it be deployed without all of the Simulation resources?

Many thanks!

Amparo

Answer 1

Hi Amparo,

Could you please share the documentation which you are following for the steps? 

What is the error message you are getting? 

Answer 2

Hi AshokPeddakotla,

Actually I didn't find any guideline in the documentation about how to deploy the solution without the Simulation. That's why I'm asking here for help.

As for the errors, please see below:

VERBOSE: 2019-09-13 11:56:48Z - Deploy all other resources to Azure
VERBOSE: 11:56:53 AM - Updated resource group 'ccm-cf-dev' in location 'westus'
VERBOSE: Performing the operation "Creating Deployment" on target "ccm-cf-dev".
New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : 11:56:56 AM - Error: Code=InvalidDeploymentParameterValue; Message=The value of deployment parameter 'uaSecretThumbprint' is null. Please specify the value or use the parameter
reference. See https://aka.ms/arm-deploy/#parameter-file for details.
At C:\dev\repos\azure-iot-connected-factory\build.ps1:2946 char:21
+ ... ArmResult = New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName $sc ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.ResourceManager.Cmdlets.Implementation.NewAzureResourceGroupDeploymentCmdlet

New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment : The deployment validation failed
At C:\dev\repos\azure-iot-connected-factory\build.ps1:2946 char:21
+ ... ArmResult = New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName $sc ...
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : CloseError: (:) [New-AzureRmResourceGroupDeployment], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Azure.Commands.ResourceManager.Cmdlets.Implementation.NewAzureResourceGroupDeploymentCmdlet

C:\dev\repos\azure-iot-connected-factory\build.ps1 : 2019-09-13 11:56:56Z - Resource deployment failed
At line:1 char:1
+ .\build.ps1 cloud -Configuration debug -DeploymentName CCM-CF-Dev ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,build.ps1

VERBOSE: 11:57:03 AM - Updated resource group 'ccm-cf-dev' in location 'westus'
Provisioning failed
At C:\dev\repos\azure-iot-connected-factory\build.ps1:2951 char:5
+     throw "Provisioning failed"
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OperationStopped: (Provisioning failed:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Provisioning failed
    

At the same time I removed the following entries from ArmParameter (in the build.ps1 script):     
    keyVaultSkuName = $script:KeyVaultSkuName; `
    keyVaultSecretBaseName = $script:UaSecretBaseName; `
    keyVaultVmSecret = $script:UaSecretForVmEncoded; `
    keyVaultWebsiteSecret = $script:UaSecretForWebsiteEncoded; `
    uaSecretThumbprint = $script:UaSecretThumbprint; `
    uaSecretPassword =  $script:UaSecretPassword;
    
and the corresponding entries from the ConnectedfactoryMapKey.json file as well.

Many thanks,

Amparo

Answer 3

Hi Amparo,

Thanks for the additional information.

I have checked this internally and unfortunately you cannot deploy Connected Factory solution accelerator without the simulation. It is meant to deploy as a set of features to demo the device to insight experience.

Answer 4

Ok. Thanks for checking.