Hello SIOS-Forum-Community,

In discussions with customers, the question often arises as to the benefits of SIMATIC Logon and how it is licensed.

Benefit

With SIMATIC Logon it is possible to realise a central user administration.

The central configuration of all access authorisations of a distributed system avoids unnecessary travel times. The cumbersome multiple configuration of each individual station on site is no longer necessary. Accordingly, users can easily be configured centrally.

All access data is valid for the entire system on every connected station. Additional access data on local subsystems are no longer necessary.

Licensing

The PC on which the central user administration is realised must have the corresponding licences.

• The SIMATIC Logon Server requires a basic licence for SIMATIC Logon.

• To connect panels or WinCC Runtime Advanced stations to a central user administration, SIMATIC Logon Remote Access licences are required. In this regard, licences are available for connecting 3 clients or 10 clients. These licences are additive, which means that the purchased number is added to the old number.

Further information can be found in the Industry Mall in the "Product Information" editor.
https://mall.industry.siemens.com/mall/de/b1/Catalog/Products/10360585?tree=CatalogTree

Note
The licensing described in this article refers to the time of writing this article (status: February 2021).
If you have any questions, please contact Siemens technical support.

Yours sincerely
SIMATIC International Technical Support Hub