WinCC Unified – V18

Audit

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Audit Viewer
3 Scripting

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WinCC Unified V18
Audit & Reporting Unified Comfort Panel PC

Trace process operations and GMP compliance

WinCC Unified Audit Basis (GMP compliance)

Audit Trail records for Tags, Audit Trail logs &
Detection of manipulation,
Audit Confirmation and Audit Trail report
➢ Restore Database segments, User management
operation (Login/Logout)
➢ View and Analyze Audit trail (query, filter,..)
➢ Electronic Signature(1)

Audit Audit WinCC Unified Audit Enhanced

Basis Enhanced ➢ Double Electronic Signature(1)
(1) Electronic Signature is planned within V18 context
as V18 Update candidate

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Audit – Electronic record for user management operation
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

Logoff user
Login user “Operator”
“Operator”

Login user “Operator”

Generation of an automatic electronic record for a successful login/logout on the system

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Audit – Restore Backup
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

Restore Segments

Select “Audit”

restore of your Audit Trail backup*

*Backups are only available with the option Unified Database Storage
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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Audit Viewer
3 Scripting

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WinCC Unified Audit – Basis
New Audit Viewer control

You can find the Audit Viewer under “My controls” tab.

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Monitoring Audit Electronic Records on Runtime

Specific Control to be added on

screens.

Allows the monitoring of

electronic records based on a
specific filter.

Visualization of online (trail

database) and offline (exported
.csv file) data.

Customizable attribute selection.

Identification of manipulated
records.

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WinCC Unified Audit – Basis
Audit Viewer control

Update the View Define sorting

Use the selected Select the visible Export the view to
(read from the criteria for the Print the view
query columns .CSV
Audit trail) columns

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Audit Viewer export to .CSV

Press export

Select what you

want to export

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Audit Viewer create a query

Entries are filter to the

user Manu

Load query

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Audit Viewer manipulated log

modified entry

deleted entries

added entries

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Audit Viewer settings

This folder
must exist on
the system

Select a filter type

Select a
verification type

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Audit Viewer create a query

Enable the query

Add a new query

A query can have This filter search for

multiple filters entries in the audit trail
from the user “Manu”

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WinCC Unified Audit – Basis
Audit Viewer import .CSV

Import the .CSV

via scripting or
over the control

Import the .CSV you exported via scripting or over the control

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Table of contents
Index / Agenda

Time Topic Presenter

1 Overview
2 Audit Viewer
3 Scripting

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Snippets

Two snippets for reading asynchronous

electronic records are available

Snippet “Read electronic records”

define your necessary time range the function creates
a trace with Audit information

Snippet “Export electronic records as CSV”

define your necessary time range, a file path and the
functions create a .CSV file with all Audit information

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Audit
Live Demo

LIVE DEMO

• Audit Control
• Global settings -> path storage for queries
• Add a query
• Show results

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Hands On: Audit
SIMATIC WinCC Unified

H A N D S O N in 10 min
• Add Audit viewer to the screen „“
• Load RT

• Configure path for storage

• Configure a query
• Run the query

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Open Source Software License Information

The products shown in this presentation include:

• Software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors.
• Software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)
• Cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
• Portions were derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm

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Disclaimer

© Siemens 2022

Subject to changes and errors. The information given in this document

only contains general descriptions and/or performance features which
may not always specifically reflect those described, or which may
undergo modification in the course of further development of the
products. The requested performance features are binding only when
they are expressly agreed upon in the concluded contract.

All product designations may be trademarks or other rights of

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respective owner.

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