Configuring SystemLink User Roles and Privileges

To use the Static Data Viewer, all users must have required SystemLink privileges. Complete the following steps to register users, define user roles, and assign privileges.

Note Only admins have access to make the following changes in SystemLink.
  1. Launch the NI SystemLink Web Application from the Start menu. When logging in for the first time, use the admin credentials that you created in Configuring NI Web Server.
    Tip You can also launch the application from the NI Web Server Configuration application by opening the Summary tab and clicking the Running Server URI link. This URL is referred to as the SystemLink URL.
  2. Click 1378 to open the SystemLink navigator.
  3. In Access Control » Roles tab, create a new role to define an analyst using the Static Data Viewer and specify the minimum required privileges for each feature listed in the following table. Refer to Configuring a Role and Privileges in the SystemLink Manual for more information about creating new user roles.
    Applications and Services Privileges
    Alarms and Notifications
    • Enable the following Privileges:
      • Acknowledge alarms
      • Create tag alarm rules
      • Delete alarms
      • Delete tag alarm rules
      • List and view alarms
      • View details for strategies, groups, and email templates
      • Read tag alarm rules
      • Set and clear alarms
      • Modify tag alarm rules
    Messages
    • Set Privilege Specificity to *
    • Enable the following Privileges:
      • Allow all privileges
    Tags
    • Set Privilege Specificity to *
    • Enable the following Privileges:
      • List tags and view tag value, history, properties, and keywords
    Note It may take up to five minutes for privilege changes to take effect.