Configure secure groups in the FactoryTalk Administration Console

To use the

FactoryTalk Directory

with

FactoryTalk Historian ME

, you need to configure specific user groups in the

FactoryTalk Administration Console

. If you have

FactoryTalk Historian SE

installed in your environment, the secure groups should already exist in the

FactoryTalk Administration Console

. Otherwise, you need to create them.

There are the following secure user groups configured in the

FactoryTalk Administration Console

:

If you plan to use the auditing features of

FactoryTalk Historian ME

while using FactoryTalk Security, you must create user IDs on the

User Management

page that exactly matches the user IDs in the FactoryTalk Directory. This will allow you to track changes through a specific user and not a user group. An admin user who is a part of the FTHAdministrators group in the

FactoryTalk Administration Console

must also belong to the FTHAdministrators, FTHSupervisors, and FTHEngineers groups on

FactoryTalk Historian ME

. In addition, a user who belongs to the FTHEngineers group must also belong to the FTHSupervisors group to change events on

FactoryTalk Historian ME

.