ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for electrical systems – CMES

1. General 

GENERAL 

1.1. Target Group 

The MNS Digital Edge device is the hardware platform for ABB Ability™ Condition Monitor

ing for electrical systems (in the following ‘CMES’).  

Audiences of this manual are service technicians and switchgear operators on site. 

This document describes the communication and user interfaces of the MNS Digital Edge de

vice and CMES.

2. Introduction 

This document provides an introduction on how to setup or change login credentials for the 

user management of the CMES. 

2.1. Default settings 

The MNS Digital Edge is provided from ABB with the custom specific project installed. Within 

project specification the customer defines the number of users which have access to CMES  

and the respective user roles. In this case ABB will set-up the CMES with the agreed user ac

counts. After delivery it’s mandatory to change at least the user passwords. 

In case the users and roles are not defined from project, 2 default users are installed:  

Administrator and Operator.  

This is also valid when the MNS Digital Edge is ordered as spare part. 

Default login credentials are: 

Administrator 

User name:    

Password:  

Operator 

User name:  

Password: 

EdgeGwAdmin 

PleaseChangeMe 

EdgeGwUser 

PleaseChangeMe 

For cyber security reason, it’s mandatory to change the password after installation of the 

MNS Digital Edge.  

ABB will take no liability caused by using the default passwords. 

Please contact your IT department about details of password management and cyber secu

rity measures in your company. A process for regular update of anti-virus software needs to 

be implemented. 

By default, the Windows Defender is installed and activated. Please ensure to update the Win

dows OS and the anti-virus software on regular basis. 

3. Configuring the User Management for 

the CMES 

This chapter explains possible adaptions of the user management for users of the pre-in

stalled MNS Digital Edge:  

• Create a new user  

• Adding a new user 

• Changing users 

• Changing passwords by Windows remote desktop application. 

3.1. Creating a New User for CMES  

To create a new user, you have to login as administrator. The following steps are describing 

the workflow how to create a new user with the role “operator”. An operator has the permis

sions to acknowledge alarms. It is also described how to give a user the role “Read Only” at 

the crucial steps. This user has no permission to acknowledge alarms.