Configuring User Access

Depending upon their access, users can launch a AVEVA Plant SCADA view-only client or a control client.

• View-only client - a computer configured with view-only access to the AVEVA Plant SCADA runtime system. No control of the system is possible, but access to data monitoring is available.

• Control client - an interface between the AVEVA Plant SCADA runtime system and an operator. If you are using AVEVA Plant SCADA on a network, every AVEVA Plant SCADA computer (on the network) is a control client.

Access to the client type is granted through two special Windows user groups ('SCADA.AnywhereControl' or '[SCADA.AnywhereView') created by the installer on the computer where the Plant SCADA Access Anywhere Server is installed.

Note: If you have recently upgraded to Plant SCADA Access Anywhere 2.0, you will need to manually migrate the users in the existing "VjcaControl" and "VjcaView" Windows user groups to the new 'SCADA.AnywhereControl' and 'SCADA.AnywhereView' groups.

Local users and domain groups need to be added to the required group manually. To do this:

1. Navigate to the Control Panel. Select Administrative Tools | Computer Management.

2. In the left pane, navigate to System Tools | Local Users and Groups.

   

3. In the right pane, double-click on Groups to expand the node.

4. Locate the Plant SCADA Access Anywhere groups, and right-click on the group to which you want to add a user.

   

5. Select Add to Group from the context menu. The group properties dialog box appears.

   

6. Click Add. The Select User dialog box appears.

7. In the Enter the object name to select box, type the name of the user you want to add.

8. Click Check Names. Once the user name is verified, click OK.The group properties dialog box appears.

9. Click Apply. The user is added to the selected group.

   Note: If you are using Plant SCADA 2020 R2 (8.30), the members of the Plant SCADA Access Anywhere user groups must also be included in Plant SCADA's SCADA.RuntimeUsers group to access the runtime display client.