Manage Data Archive user accounts and groups

Data Archive has its own user identification and password security, which you manage through PI user accounts. PI user accounts are not secure. Whenever possible, use Windows authentication.

You can assign users to one or more PI groups; each PI user has the access permissions defined for that user, as well as the access permissions defined for all groups to which the user belongs.

PI users and PI groups are essentially legacy components. You can use PI users and PI groups in trusts and in mappings. However, when you do that, you might create some confusion about the role of the PI user or the PI group on the server. Do you use these components to manage actual PI user accounts? Do you use them only for mappings and trusts? Or do you use them for both? If you are creating a new component to use in a mapping or a trust, use a PI identity to avoid confusion. For more information, see the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y80uGV9b6cY.

Manage users and groups through the PI SMT Security > Identities, Users, & Groups tool. By default, the identities, users, and groups for all selected PI Servers appear in separate tabs. See the PI SMT online Help for instructions on using the tool.

For more information about configuring security, see Security configuration.