Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 110)

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System policies
In a FactoryTalk View SE application, you can set up the following system policies. Local
station applications do not contain Health monitoring policies or Live Data policies
because these apply only to network distributed applications.
 FactoryTalk Alarms and Events settings include how to send audit messages to
the alarm and event history log, whether to send suppressed alarms to the alarm
history log, options for buffering events, and severity ranges associated with each
priority category.
 User rights assignment settings determine which users can backup and restore
FactoryTalk Directory contents, manually switch the Active and Standby servers in a
redundant server pair, or modify the security authority identifier.
 Health monitoring policy settings define system availability parameters. These
include how often the system checks network connections to remote computers, and
how long a network disruption can last before the system determines that
communications have failed.
 Live Data policy settings determine which communications protocol will be used in
a FactoryTalk system distributed over a network.
 Audit policy settings determine what security information is recorded while the
system is in use. This includes whether FactoryTalk Diagnostics logs an audit message
when a user attempts an action and is allowed or denied access.
 Security policy settings determine general characteristics of security accounts and
passwords. This includes whether single sign-on is enabled, and how many invalid
logon attempts are allowed before an account is locked out.
For details about setting up system policies, see the FactoryTalk Security Help.
Changing health monitoring policy settings can result in unexpected behavior. For most
networks, the default policy settings provide the best results.
Changing live data policy settings can result in unexpected behavior. Do not change the
settings in a running production system. For changes to take effect, all computers on the
network must be shut down and restarted.