DeltaV User Manager

The DeltaV User Manager lets you manage user accounts and define the types of locks that can be used in your DeltaV application. You can:

• Create and manage user accounts
• Create and manage groups of users
• Manage (name and describe) locks
• Generate user-based reports

The overall security system involves not only the DeltaV User Manager, but also the DeltaV Explorer and Control Studio applications. It is in the DeltaV Explorer and Control Studio that you assign your defined locks to specific module parameters and parameter fields.

Security information is defined in terms of users, groups, locks, and keys.

• Users are DeltaV and Windows users. You can assign users to one or more groups.
• Groups have access to a specific subset of the keys available in a site.
• Locks prevent users from changing specific module parameters and parameter fields. Locked objects may only be accessed by users who have the appropriate key. (Locks are assigned using the DeltaV Explorer or Control Studio.)
• Keys can be held directly by the user or indirectly through association with a group that owns the key. Keys provide permission to access locked parameters or parameter fields. (The granting of keys is done with the DeltaV User Manager.)
• A user’s association with a group or ownership of a key can be global (sitewide) or limited to the scope of a single plant area or node; or, a set of plant areas or nodes (depending on the scope of the key).
• Execution privileges, in the form of locks and keys, determine the user's ability to make changes to the configuration and to perform downloads in the Control Studio and DeltaV Explorer.

Many of the changes you make in the DeltaV User Manager require that you perform a workstation download in the DeltaV Explorer. Before you close the DeltaV User Manager, a message appears reminding you to download the workstation to ensure that all security changes take effect.