Prerequisites

• You are empowered to change the specific policy.

• You have already booked a Bosch IoT Insights instance

• You have already established the connection from Things to Insights

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.

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 Issuer (prefix).

8. In the field ID, enter the rest ID:insights from the Auth part in your connection (from the step before).

9. In the field Type, enter any descriptive string, e.g. it-insights-integration.

10. Click + to add a resource, i.e. what will the subject have access to.

11. Enter the Resource path thing:/features.

12. Grant 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 Digital twins > Policy of a thing.