Other Requirements#

By default, Critical Manufacturing MES ships with integrated authentication through Active Directory. Authentication using Single Sign-On (SSO) or using Local Users can be manually configured.

For traditional installations, Critical Manufacturing MES requires that Internet Information Services (IIS) has the WebSocket Protocol, URL Rewriter and Application Request Routing (ARR) enabled. WebSocket support is available starting with Internet Information Services (IIS) 8.0 which is available from versions Windows 8.0 and Windows Server 2012 onwards.

If the customer intends to generate SAP interface code or proxies based on the Critical Manufacturing MES ERP module, the customer must acquire an ERPConnect license from Theobald Software.

To enable HTTPS, there must be a valid certificate installed on the Personal Certification Store of each Application Server before running the Critical Manufacturing MES setup program. The setup program will provide the user with the opportunity to choose the SSL certificate to be used by the Critical Manufacturing MES application. For containerized installations, the SSL certificate information must be provided through DevOps Center during installation.