Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk AssetCentre Installation Guide 5.0 - Manual (Page 71)

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To manually configure the agent computer, follow the steps below:
1. On the agent computer, use the Computer Management utility in Microsoft Windows
to create a Windows user account that can be used to authenticate with FactoryTalk
Security.
2. Add the new Windows user account to the local Administrators group.
3. Configure both services to run as the new Windows user account created in step 1. To
do so, open the Services utility in Microsoft Windows, find the FactoryTalk
AssetCentre AgentController service and edit its properties to log on as the account.
Find the VerificationAgent service and edit its properties to log on as the account.
4. Open the FactoryTalk Administration Console and add the new Windows user account
created above as a new Windows-linked user.
O N ANY COMPUTER IN THE SYSTEM :
Perform these steps on any computer connected to the FactoryTalk Network Directory.
These steps need only be performed once and will be in effect for the entire FactoryTalk
Network Directory.
1. In the FactoryTalk Administration Console, create a new user group called “Local
Agent Users.”
2. The users created on different agent computers in the previous section (whether using
the utiltiy or added manually) all appear in the FactoryTalk Network Directory as
individual users. Add each of these new FactoryTalk users to the Local Agent Users
group. This will facilitate making security settings because you will be able to set
them once for the whole group, rather than for each user.
3. Grant the Local Agent Users group read access to the FactoryTalk Directory. To do
so, right-click the Network node at the top of the tree, and then select Security. On
the Permissions tab, select the Local Agent Users group and then expand the
Common permissions group. Make sure the Read permission is set to Allow.
4. Set permissions for your RSLogix family software packages (depending on what type
of processors you are using). Under System in the Explorer pane, right-click
Networks and Devices and select Security. If the Local Agent Users group doesn’t
appear in the list, add it. On the Permissions tab, select the Local Agent Users group.
Expand the permissions group for the appropriate software and set the following
permissions to Allow:
 For RSLogix 5 grant Offline Program File Monitoring, Save, and Upload.
 For RSLogix 500 grant Offline Program File Monitoring, Save, and Upload.
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