Confirm the Settings for an Industrial Graphics Server

Note: AVEVA Industrial Graphics is now deprecated within Plant SCADA and future releases. It will no longer be supported or maintained in future versions, monthly updates or security updates. AVEVA recommends customers cease using AVEVA Industrial Graphics within Plant SCADA runtime systems and decommission any Plant SCADA Industrial Graphics web servers from production and engineering systems. See AVEVA™ Industrial Graphics for more information.

To confirm that an Industrial Graphics Server is ready for operation, you should check that you have completed the following steps.

Connect all your Plant SCADA computers to a System Management Server

To connect a computer to a System Management Server, use the System Management Server page in Configurator. See Connect a Computer to a System Management Server.

Configure the authentication settings

The required settings are available on the Authentication Settings page within the Industrial Graphics Server branch of Configurator. See Use Configurator to Set Up an Industrial Graphics Server.

Set up deployment

If your Industrial Graphics Server is running on a remote computer, set it up for deployment.

• Set up a deployment server in your system (see Configure a Deployment Server).

• Configure a deployment client on the Industrial Graphics Server so that it can receive project versions from the deployment server (see Configure a Deployment Client).

Enable encryption

An Industrial Graphics Server will only connect to your Plant SCADA servers over an encrypted connection. You need to confirm the following:

• Plant SCADA is configured to run with encryption enabled. This is achieved via the Encryption page in Configurator (see Enable Encryption in the Plant SCADA documentation).

  Running in mixed mode is acceptable as long the remaining prerequisites are also met.

• Runtime Manager needs to be configured to run as a service.

  This is required to enable encryption. The required settings are available on Configurator's Computer Setup page (see Configure a Runtime Computer for Encryption in the Plant SCADA documentation).

• In your project settings, confirm the DNS Name field is configured for each entry in the Computers activity. This is also required to enable encryption.

• Run the Computer Setup Wizard and confirm on the Network Model page that networking is enabled. This is required even if you are running the Industrial Graphics Server and the Plant SCADA servers on a single computer.

Set up user authentication

The Industrial Graphics Server only supports authentication with Windows® users. Plant SCADA users are not supported.

Authentication occurs in two places:

• To establish a connection to the Industrial Graphics Server, a user must be a member of a Windows group that is mapped to the "Industrial Graphics Users" security role (see Security Roles).

• The user must also be a member of a Windows group that is mapped to a valid Role within your Plant SCADA project. See the topic Roles within the Runtime System Security section of the Plant SCADA documentation.