Simatic Logon - Siemens PCS 7 Installation Manual

Installing PC stations
5.7 Preparing PC stations
5.7.2

SIMATIC Logon

Note on the use of chip cards
● USB chip card readers
When using a USB chip card reader or the serial chip card reader, use the chip card driver.
You can find information on the availability of the drivers in the
PCS 7; PCS 7 - Readme file (see "Preface (Page 9)"). You can find a description of the
chip card readers in the section "Overview of additional devices and drivers for PCS 7
(Page 94)".
● Using chip cards
Make sure that you reformat all chip cards that were formatted with SIMATIC Logon prior
to V1.3. As of version V1.3, SIMATIC Logon uses improved security algorithms. If you
attempt to logon with a chip card that is not updated, the attempt will fail. However, you can
always log on with your user name and password via the keyboard.
If you have logged on with a chip card and remove this chip card during configuration in
the SIMATIC Logon role management, all the changes that you have not saved up to this
point are discarded. Reinserting the card will not solve this problem.
Notes on the Windows workgroup
If you require high availability, you need to work in a domain structure, since no redundancy
is offered by SIMATIC Logon in a Windows workgroup.
Notes on the SIMATIC Logon Event Log Viewer
If you want to print the events in the event log, proceed as follows:
● Click "Export" and export the events in PDF format.
● Print out the exported file.
Instead of the file size of the event log, the number of recorded events is displayed based on
the configured filter.
The filter dialog always shows the date and time based on the settings you have selected for
the date and time in Windows. Display in conformity to ISO 8601 is not possible.
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