Requirements and Licensing

This chapter gives an overview of the necessary Requirements and Licensing details for the Dashboard.

Requirements

Following requirements must be matched to use the WinCC OA Dashboard

  • The base package of WinCC OA.
  • A valid license for the WinCC OA Dashboard (For further licensing information, please see Licensing )
  • Some Widgets require additional Licenses, see ULC UX Widget, Video Widget
  • Valid WinCC OA certificates
CAUTION:
The WinCC OA Standard certificates must be replaced with your own valid certificates! These valid certificates must then be manually accepted in the browser.
Restriction:
The user root is not allowed to login within the Dashboard.

Licensing Details

The Dashboard has both desktop and mobile license options. Dashboard desktop licenses give full access, i.e. they have both read and write permissions, enabling viewing as well as publishing or editing of dashboards. Mobile licenses are view-only, i.e. they do not give access to the edit mode.

If additional mobile licenses are required, desktop licenses can be used for mobile connections. The amount of licenses that can be used as such are set with the config entry [wssServer] dashboardSharedLicenses.

If no desktop licenses are available, a mobile license can be used, if a free one is available. This will restrict access to view-only.

Depending on project configuration, the number of required licenses can be reduced by using a shared WebSocket connection for your web browser instead of separate WebSocket connections for each instance of the Dashboard in your local web browser, see Shared Worker.

You only need pure WebSocket licenses if you want to write a WebSocket server in CONTROL. This means as many licenses as simultaneous connections to the server should be possible. For the dashboard, you need as many licenses as the number of dashboards to be used simultaneously.

If only the System Dashboard is accessed, no license is required, but all access beyond this is restricted.