Required for the Use of Certificates

To use certificates in a WinCC OA project:

or use either the

Project Administration

• To create a Standard project - see chapter Create Project. Standard project option creates a server-side authentication project for managers or for UI managers. Then use the "Generate automatically" option of the "New Project" wizards to create certificates automatically.

or

Manual Creation via SSL Certificates Panel

• To create certificates - see chapter Panel for SSL Certificates and set config entries in order to use the ceated certificates - see chapters Config Entries for MxProxy and HTTP Server, Config Entries for SSA for Managers and Config Entries for the Reporting Manager for Reporting. NOTE that only the config entries: httpAuth, httpsPort and sslCertificate of the reporting manager are relevant here.

  Note:

  Note that self-signed certificates and an own root certificate authority are created in the process via Project Administration or the SSL Certificates Panel. Note that you must replace the default certificates with your own certificates.

Feature-specific Certificate Configurations

The use of certificates for the WebView.ewo and OPC UA is described in feature-specific chapters: WebView.ewo Certificate Handling and OPC UA Certificates for the use OPC UA certificates as well as Root Certificate & the Trusted Certification Authorities for Browsers for the HTTP Server. For the description of the certificates for the Mobile UI Application, see chapter Mobile Application Interface.

Feature-specific Configurations