Impact on MES Operations#

Upon enabling the Security Portal in a Critical Manufacturing MES instance, several differences will be noticed and should be understood in order to ensure proper functioning of the application:

• Users will require to have a PIN individually set to unlock the application if it has been locked either manually or through a timeout. To set the PIN, go to the Users section of the User Guide. This configuration can be checked in the Configuration section of the User Guide, under the /Cmf/Guis/Configuration/Common/Security key.

• The PIN cannot be used to login or sign checklists if it is older than a certain number of days. This is configurable in /Cmf/System/Configuration/security-portal/PINExpirationDays/. For more information, see the System Configuration Entries page under /Cmf/System/Configuration/SecurityPortal.

  Note

  If the PIN has expired, an error message will appear.

• If Checklist items of type Signature are created, the User that will sign the Checklist item must have a PIN defined.

• Locking and unlocking the Critical Manufacturing MES GUI is not possible in environments that use Security Portal.
• The AutoLockMode configuration entry (for more information, see the Configuration section of the User Guide) the default setting is LogOff.