2.2 Preparing your IoT Platform - telstra/TIC2017 GitHub Wiki

As part of the developer kit, you should have received your unique login details for a tenant (the term for your account) on the Telstra IoT Platform. After receiving the account details, you should be able to login by pointing your browser to:

https://<account>.iot.telstra.com

where <account> matches the kit your team is using (i.e. tic2017teamXXX)

Login using the username and password provided. Note: both username and password are case sensitive.

You'll receive a message on the mobile number you submitted as part of the registration for this Challenge. This is a two-factor authentication (2FA) message. Enter the code from your mobile in the box provided and click verify to enter the main dashboard.

Congratulations! You should now seen the Cockpit view (below). If so, you're now ready to get started with the Telstra IoT Platform.

Needing to enter a 2FA code every time your device wants to send a message will quickly become extremely frustrating. We're going to create a user so you can hard-code credentials into your registration code to remove the hassle of 2FA.

Firstly, enter the admin portal by clicking the grid icon at the top-right of the screen.

Next, click on the "Users" tab in the far-left menu

On this screen, you should now see your current admin user. Click on this user if you want to update your details. We're going to add a user by selecting the "+ Add user" button.

Fill in the details and select all the options according to the screenshot below. It's important you do not select any of the login options for this user, and do not select the "admin" user group. All the other details can be populated as required. Click save when you're done, and make sure to note down your selected username and password.

That's all you need to do to prepare your IoT Platform tenant for your device! Head on over to the next section to register your IoT Dev Kit!