This time, I'll make a user called 'ignition' and I will give them a password.

You'll notice it's brought us to the Welcome screen where we can go through the commissioning process.

Because I already have it open here in the background, I can just reload the page. To do that, I simply need to navigate my web browser to localhost:8088. So we have to run through the commissioning process again. Because the commissioning process was added in Ignition 8, where you can set up a new user account the first time you install Ignition, we can't just reset the password. Once the gateway restarts, we now get the message that the gateway needs to be commissioned. This is going to go ahead and restart my gateway. To restart the gateway, I simply need to run another command.

When I run that, you'll notice we get a message letting us know that the password has been reset and that the gateway needs to be restarted. In this case, to reset the password, I use the option 'p'. Once here, to use the utility, you simply run the command 'gwcmd' and then specify an option after. This is typically in the C drive in Program Files, Inductive Automation and then Ignition. To use the command-line utility, the first thing that I need to do is I need to navigate to the location that Ignition is installed at. The command-line utility does need administrative privileges to work properly. You may have noticed that the Command Prompt application that I've opened up is running with administrative privileges. So for my Windows operating system, I'm going to need to open up Command Prompt, whereas in a Linux or Mac operating system, it's usually the Terminal application that you open instead. The command-line utility is run from a command shell program. The gateway command-line utility can help with that. I have my gateway webpage open here but I seem to have forgotten the password for my admin user account. For a full list of the available actions, see our User Manual on the page Gateway Command Line Utility. These basic actions include things like: taking a backup of your Ignition Gateway, changing the ports that the gateway is running on, or even activating a new license.

On the server that Ignition is installed on there is a command-line utility that allows you to run some basic actions against the gateway.

Ignition gateway utility