Prepare Your System for Deployment

Deployment uses encrypted communications, which means you will require access to a System Management Server (see Set Up a System Management Server).

To prepare your system for deployment, you need to:

• Configure or connect to an existing System Management Server.

• Setup a deployment server.

• Setup each deployment client.

The deployment clients include any computers in your Plant SCADA system to which you will deploy project versions.

Note:
• Ideally the Deployment Server should be installed on the same computer as the System Management Server. See Install a Deployment Server.

• If you install the Deployment Server on a different computer to the System Management Server, you cannot use the default local user groups assigned to the Deployment Security Roles as they will not work in a distributed environment. You need to create domain user groups that align with the existing local groups, and add these to the Deployment Security Roles. The domain groups can then be used instead of the following default local user groups.
Deployment Administrators role: 'SCADA.DeploymentAdmins' or 'Asb.Deployment.AdminRole'.
Deployment Uploaders role: 'SCADA.DeploymentUploaders' or 'Asb.Deployment.UploadRole'.
Deployment Users role: 'SCADA.DeploymentUsers' or 'Asb.Deployment.DeployRole'.
See Modify the Members of a Security Role.

• When installing a Deployment Server as part of a workgroup, it must be installed on the same computer as the System Management Server. If you need the Deployment Server on a separate computer to the System Management Server, you will need to move your IT infrastructure to a domain.

You need to install the required components on each computer. These are available via the Plant SCADA installer. You can then use the Configurator to perform the following steps:

• Configure a Deployment Server

• Configure a Deployment Client

• Configure a Runtime Computer for Deployment.

Note: The deployment server uses Windows user groups to control access to some of its functionality. If a particular user needs to perform deployment tasks in Plant SCADA Studio, you will need to make sure they are added to the appropriate Windows group on the deployment sever. For more information, see Provide Deployment Access to Additional Users.

When this setup is complete, each deployment client will be ready to receive projects (and ongoing updates) from the deployment server.

See Also

Connect Plant SCADA Studio to a Deployment Server