Management console security

The AVEVA Historian Management Console (which is part of the overall Operations Control Management Console) runs in the context of the logged on Windows user account. To protect against unauthorized access to the AVEVA Historian, you must specify a separate Windows user account that the Management Console will use to connect to the Historian. You can specify this account when you set up the server registration properties. For more information on registration, see About administrative tools.

If the account specified is not a member of the local administrators group on the computer hosting the Historian, the Management Console has "read-only" access. That is, you may view all the information shown in the Management Console, but you cannot perform any control actions on the Historian, such as starting or stopping the system.

Important: To prevent possible unauthorized access, the password for the Management Console login account must NOT be blank.