Access Anywhere Secure Gateway Installation Guide

AVEVA Plant SCADA Access Anywhere can be used to access AVEVA Plant SCADA clients hosted on Terminal Servers with HTML5 compatible web browsers. Plant SCADA Access Anywhere connects to Plant SCADA remotely via the Plant SCADA Access Anywhere Secure Gateway. This guide provides information about installing and configuring the Secure Gateway.

This guide assumes knowledge of the following:

• AVEVA Plant SCADA

• Enabling and configuring RDP on Windows operating systems

• Firewall configuration

• Web server administration

Terminology used in this guide includes the following:

• DMZ (demilitarized zone) - physical or logical subnetwork that contains and exposes an organization’s external services to a larger untrusted network.

• HTML5 - a new update to the HTML specification. Extends HTML with new features and functionality for communication, display, etc.

• RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol. A remote desktop protocol developed by Microsoft. RDP is a standard component of Microsoft Windows.

• RDP Host - a Windows system that can be remotely accessed using Microsoft RDP, such as a Terminal Server (RDS Session Host) with remote access enabled.

• RDS - Remote Desktop Services is one of the components of Microsoft Windows that allow a user to take control of a remote computer or virtual machine over a network connection.

• SSL - Secure Sockets Layer. A cryptographic protocol that provides protected communications over the Internet.

• VPN - Virtual Private Network. It enables a computer to securely send and receive data across shared or public networks as if it were directly connected to the private network.

• WebSocket - a bi-directional, full-duplex communication mechanism introduced in the HTML5 specification.