About Proficy Authentication Groups

A Proficy Authentication group is created for a specific type of users who will likely perform the same type of activities.

If you have groups in a remote Proficy Authentication service, you can use them with Historian using the Proficy Authentication LDAP Integration tool. This section describes how to map the groups in the remote Proficy Authentication service with Historian counterparts. By default, Historian contains the following Proficy Authentication groups:
  • historian_visualization.admin: Provides access to Trend Client and the Web Admin console.
  • historian_visualization.user: Allows access to Trend Client.
  • historian_rest_api.read: Provides read access to public REST API.
  • historian_rest_api.write: Provides write access to public REST API.
  • historian_rest_api.admin: Provides read/write access to public REST API.
  • historian_enterprise.admin: Provides read/write access to Configuration Hub APIs.
Note: Instead of mapping the groups, you can choose to map individual users with Historian users. For instructions, refer to Managing Proficy Authentication Users Using the Configuration Tool.

Workflow

  1. Provide the details of the remote Proficy Authentication service while installing Web-based Clients.
  2. Connect to the remote Proficy Authentication service.
  3. Map the Proficy Authentication groups with that of the Historian Proficy Authentication instance. You can map the groups in LDAP and LDAPS (LDAP via SSL) as well.