Prerequisites

• You are empowered to change the specific policy.

• You have already booked an Bosch IoT Insights instance

• You have already established the connection - Things to Insights connection

Goal

Given you need to provide your Bosch IoT Insights subscription permissions to READ the compass values of a Demo device.

The full path for a Demo device's compass feature would be thing:/features/compass.

Add the policy entry via the Developer Console

1. Open the Things view

2. Select the device whose policy needs a change

3. Open the Policy view - you see the defaults created at step provisioning

4. Click + to add an additional entry

5. Set the label (any string, we call it INSIGHTS as a hint to better understand the policy

6. Add the subject, which is composed following the pattern integration:ID:insights.

7. Select integration from the drop-down

8. Add the rest ID:insights from the Auth part in your connection (from the step before)

9. Type, is any descriptive string, e.g. it-insights-integration-

10. Click + to add an the resources, i.e. what will the subject have access to.

11. The Resource path is thing:/features/compass.

12. The permission Read.

13. Save the settings.

Check the result in the JSON view

Your complete policy would look similar to the following example:

Further reading

The basic concept and all types of subject and resources are documented at Bosch IoT Things > Concepts > Policies.