Configure Proficy Authentication in CIMPLICITY

Before you begin to configure Proficy Authentication, read the Best Practices and Limitations section.

Proficy Authentication provides support for multi-factor authentication. It also provides centralized management of Proficy users and groups, and a common security model across Proficy products.
Note:
  • For CIMPLICITY security to work in the network, all the CIMPLICITY nodes must be connected to a same Proficy Authentication server. If you have any previous versions of CIMPLICITY, you can continue to log in to CIMPLICITY 2023 using the existing security users.
  • If you are connecting to the CIMPLICITY 2023 Server using the previous version of the CIMPLICITY Viewer, you must set the ONLY_ACCEPT_ENCRYPTED_PWD global parameter value to N.
You can use Proficy Authentication in the following scenarios:
  • You want to use a common, multi-factor authentication to log in to CIMPLICITY and other Proficy products, regardless if you are using Configuration Hub.
  • You installed CIMPLICITY, Configuration Hub, and the Proficy Authentication(UAA) server, and you want to host CIMPLICITY plug-in in Configuration Hub.

To configure and register CIMPLICITY nodes to the Proficy Authentication server, you must initially configure the Proficy Authentication server parameters in CIMPLICITY.

To configure Proficy Authentication in CIMPLICITY, you must do the following: