OPC UA Well-Known Roles

From OPC Labs Knowledge Base

The table below is a re-write of "Well-Known Roles" table from OPC 10000-3 (OPC Unified Architecture Part 3: Address Space Model), Release 1.05.06. We have created columns for the distinct separate permissions, and filled in the grid according to the prose in the original table.

OPC UA Well-Known Roles Suggested Permissions
BrowseName Browse and read non-security related Nodes Browse and read all type Nodes Browse Read live data Read historical data/events Subscribe to data/events Write live data Call Methods Read/write configuration data Change the non-security related configuration settings Change security related settings
Anonymous only in the
Server Object
yes
AuthenticatedUser yes
TrustedApplication yes
Observer yes yes yes yes
Operator yes yes yes yes some[1] some[1]
Engineer yes yes yes yes yes
Supervisor yes yes yes yes yes
ConfigureAdmin yes
SecurityAdmin yes
  1. 1.0 1.1 Session