Rockwell Automation 1756-HIST2G Historian ME 2.1 User Manual
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group security accounts as well as Windows-linked accounts, and set up security for
common actions such as opening, writing to, deleting tags.
FactoryTalk Security can prevent the following:
Writes to specified tags from the FactoryTalk Historian ME client.
Access to specified displays from the FactoryTalk Historian ME client.
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To use FactoryTalk Security, you need to set up specific groups for use with
FactoryTalk Historian ME. If you have FactoryTalk Historian SE installed in your
environment, they should already exist. Verify that they exist. If they do not, you
must create them.
The FactoryTalk Security groups and their privileges are as follows:
FactoryTalk Historian ME Administrators (FTHAdministrators) have the
following privileges:
Modify FactoryTalk Historian ME settings - including security.
Create, modify, and delete point definitions.
Read and write any point’s historical data set.
Add new point data to any point’s historical data set.
FactoryTalk Historian ME Engineers (FTHEngineers) have the following
privileges:
Create, modify, and delete point definitions.
Read and write any point’s historical data set.
FactoryTalk Historian ME Supervisors (FTHSupervisors) have the following
privileges:
Read any point definition.
Read any point’s historical data set.
If you are using FTSecurity mode, users must already be created in FTSecurity before
being added in the FactoryTalk Historian ME web client.
For more information about FactoryTalk Security, refer to the FactoryTalk Security help.
From the Windows Start menu, go to Rockwell Software > FactoryTalk Tools >
FactoryTalk Help.