Install and Components

To use Proficy Authentication, you must install one of the products which bundles Proficy Authentication, such as Historian, Plant Applications, or Operations Hub. At the time of install, you can choose from the following options:

Creating a new instance of UAA: Use this option if you are not currently using another UAA instance. For instance, use this option if you are installing your first Proficy product, or if the product you are installing is a stand-alone instance which does not need to share users and groups with another Proficy product.
Using an existing UAA: Use this option if you are currently using an instance of Proficy Authentication which contains users and groups that you want to reuse. For instance, use this option if you are already using Historian and you want to install Plant Applications and Operations Hub, and you want your existing Historian users to have access to Plant Applications and Operations Hub. To use an existing instance of UAA, you must provide the details while installing Proficy Authentication.

Important: The decision of whether to share a UAA must be made at the time of product install; there is currently no post-install option to change what UAA a product is using, nor is there a utility to migrate users from one instance of UAA into another.

As part of install, a basic UI for configuring UAA is provided along with the instance of UAA. This includes a number of required services and other components. You can see the associated services when you open the services pane. These will start automatically after install.

Note: Proficy Authentication supports UAA version 4.30.0 or later.