Global WCF
Configuration Guide
Introduction
Introduction
AVEVA Global can be used to enhance projects created in either the AVEVA Plant or AVEVA Marine group of products - henceforth known as the "base product" in this document.
References to paths and directory settings in this document are used from AVEVA Plant and should only be used as an example. Other base product paths and directory settings will be different.
The Global WCF Configuration Guide describes how to configure the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) layer of security in AVEVA Global.
The user has the ability to use the WCF protocol in a Global project. The RPC protocol continues to be available to the user if required.
Important:
The Global Client of the base product (PDMS/Marine/Engineering) installs with RPC configured as default, AVEVA Everything3D ™ is configured with WCF by default.
Global has relied on RPC (Remote Procedure Call) for all inter-location communication. There are a number of limitations in using the RPC protocol such as a dependency on using port 135 for traffic and limited support of transport protocol bindings.
The main benefit of using WCF is that it can be fully customised. Through configuration files the administrator can decide what levels of security to apply (described more in section
Security Features
). Global WCF Configuration Guide
The operation of a Global project does not change as a result of enabling WCF functionality. However the configuration of security has been abstracted from the software and is now fully customisable through new XML configuration files.
WCF is enabled and configured by modifying values within XML configuration files described later in section
Enable RPC or WCF Security
.
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