ABBMNS® Digital ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for electrical systems - CMES User Management – Quick guide ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for electrical systems – CMES User Management Quick Guide

The reader shall be familiar with the terms and concept of ABB MNS Low Voltage Switchgear.

The reader shall be familiar with the terms and concept of Microsoft Windows®.

1.2. Terminology

List of the terms, acronyms, abbreviations and definitions that the document uses.

Abbreviation Term Description

CMES Abbreviation for on-premise ABB Ability™ Condition Monitoring for electrical systems

MNS Digital Edge Hardware platform for on-premise Edge computing, including CMES and cloud connectivity

MNS Modular Low Voltage Switchgear family from ABB

Windows OS Windows Operating System.

Windows® is a registered trademark of Microsoft 

Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

1.3. Related Documentation

[1] 1TGC908002M0203 ABB Ability Condition Monitoring for electrical systems – CMES - User 

Manual

1.4. Related System Version

The content of this document is related to MNS Digital Release 2.0

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 accounts. 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: EdgeGwAdmin

Password: PleaseChangeMe

Operator

User name: EdgeGwUser

Password: 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 security 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 Windows 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-installed 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 permissions 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.

Step Actions Remark

1 • Login by remote desktop1 as administrator

The password is provided from your ABB 

contact together with the MNS 

Digital Edge.

2 • Right click windows symbol “Computer Management”-Local Users 

and Groups”

1To access the windows operating system alternatively a monitor, keypad and mouse can 

be connected to the MNS Digital Edge.

The computer management window will open

• Right Click at “Users” – “New User…”

• Enter new user name, password, Password never expires and press Create 

and Close

3.2. Changing an existing User Password

Due to cyber security reasons a user should change its own password from time to time. This 

could be done in following way: 

Step Actions Remark

1 • Login by remote desktop with user 

name and password

User login– Before user can login the 

administrator has to add user to Remote Desktop Users (Right click windows symbol – Computer Management – Local Users and Groups –

Groups - Remote Desktop Users).

2 • Left click windows symbol – “Settings”

– “Accounts” – Sign-in options”

• Section Password – Press “Change” 

button

• Enter current password, new password 

twice and hint

• Press Next

• Press Finish

Change current password, see following 

explanation about password complexity

requirements

Password Complexity Rules and Password History

The password has to contain characters from three of the following categories:

• Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)

• Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek 

and Cyrillic characters)

• Base 10 digits (0 through 9)

• Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/) Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for 

this policy setting.

• Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase 

or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages

A new password is only accepted by Windows when it is differs from four previous passwords.