Enable and configure Proficy Authentication in Project Properties

After you register the Proficy Authentication server in CIMPLICITY, you must enable and configure Proficy Authentication.

To enable and configure the Proficy Authentication, do the following:

  1. Open the project in CIMPLICITY Workbench as needed. For more information on Workbench, refer to the section About the CIMPLICITY Workbench.
  2. In the Menu bar, click Project, and then click Properties.
    The Project Properties dialog box opens.
  3. In the Project Properties dialog box, click the Proficy Authentication tab.
    The Proficy Authentication options are displayed.
    Note: The Proficy Authentication server URL and the other options that you selected at the time of Proficy Authentication server registration are displayed. To access this tab, you must be in administrator mode.
  4. Select the Enable Proficy Authentication check box.
    Note:
    • If you select the Enable Proficy Authentication check box, the Allow web configuration for this project check box in the Project Properties> Options tab will also be selected.
    • When you enable Proficy Authentication and log in to the CIMPLICITY Workbench applications using the Proficy Authentication user, that user will automatically be added to the list of users in CIMPLICITY Workbench for security reasons. You can double-click the user to view the configured properties. However, you cannot edit the properties of that user.
    • On Operations Hub, if you want to access screens in runtime using the Webspace widget with the Proficy Authentication credentials, you must enable Mixed Authentication along with the Proficy Authentication.
    For more information on the authentication types, see Configure Authentication Types.
  5. In the Prefix field, enter the name for the prefix. This prefix is added to the Security Group that you publish to the Proficy Authentication server. The prefix enables you to use the same group names across different projects in the same node but with different privileges.

    By default, a prefix in the [ProjectName ]@[NodeName] format will be added to the group(s).

    For example,

    Project Name- SAMPLEPROJ

    Node Name- CIM-123-B2

    Group in CIMPLICITY- SYSMADMIN

    The group will be published as [email protected]. Where, scada is the default namespace. For more information on Groups, refer to About Security Groups.

    Note: You can edit the prefix as needed, and the modified prefix will be added to the newly published Security Groups.
  6. Click OK to complete the configuration and close the Project Properties dialog box.
    The configuration process is completed successfully. Now you can register CIMPLICITY with Proficy Authentication, and Configuration Hub.