Basic Configuration

The Following steps must be taken to set up the Dashboard within a WinCC OA project:

1. Create a new Standard Project or use an existing project.
2. Ensure that the webclient_http.ctl script is running in your project. This script starts the web server that is required for the Dashboard to operate.
   Important:

   The webclient_http.ctl script must always be running in the project to use the Dashboard. A Standard Project includes this script automatically. If you use an existing project, you may have to add a CTRL manager with the parameter webclient_http.ctl manually. See Web Server Script (webclient_http.ctl) for details.
   Important:

   Decreasing Permissions for a Remotely Running Web Server : This only applies to the DP type _WebUI_PublicKey. In the master DP, the auth configs for all 3 DPEs must be set so that the managers running webclient_http.ctl, dashboard.ctl, or in the future webserver.js, have write access to these DPEs: hostName, port, and publicKeyString.

   Additionally, to decrease permissions for a remotely running web server, the auth configs configs on the following DPEs must be changed from the "original" configuration:

   • _System.Auth.SessionToken and
   • _System.Auth.SessionTokenInterface

   Currently, userbit 4 is required. However, introducing a dedicated permission bit for the user who starts the web server on the remote machine would be a cleaner and safer solution.

3. Within the project console, add a new CTRL manager with the following manager parameter:

   dashboard.ctl

4. Start the project and the new CTRL manager.
5. The Dashboard back end is now running and can be accessed via a web browser under

   https://localhost/data/dashboard-wc/index.html

6. Log in using a standard user or your own user that you created during the project creation process.