5.7.2 SIMATIC Logon
Note on the use of chip cards
● USB chip card readers
When using a USB chip card reader or the serial chip card reader, use the chip card driver. 
You can find information on the availability of the drivers in the 
Process Control System
 
PCS 7; PCS 7 - Readme
 file (see "Preface (Page 9)"). You can find a description of the 
chip card readers in the section "Overview of additional devices and drivers for PCS 7 
(Page 94)".
● Using chip cards
Make sure that you reformat all chip cards that were formatted with SIMATIC Logon prior 
to V1.3. As of version V1.3, SIMATIC Logon uses improved security algorithms. If you 
attempt to logon with a chip card that is not updated, the attempt will fail. However, you can 
always log on with your user name and password via the keyboard.
If you have logged on with a chip card and remove this chip card during configuration in 
the SIMATIC Logon role management, all the changes that you have not saved up to this 
point are discarded. Reinserting the card will not solve this problem.
Notes on the Windows workgroup
If you require high availability, you need to work in a domain structure, since no redundancy 
is offered by SIMATIC Logon in a Windows workgroup.
Notes on the SIMATIC Logon Event Log Viewer
If you want to print the events in the event log, proceed as follows:
● Click "Export" and export the events in PDF format.
● Print out the exported file.
Instead of the file size of the event log, the number of recorded events is displayed based on 
the configured filter.
The filter dialog always shows the date and time based on the settings you have selected for 
the date and time in Windows. Display in conformity to ISO 8601 is not possible.
Installing PC stations
5.7 Preparing PC stations
PCS 7 - PC Configuration (V8.2)
104 Installation Manual, 03/2016, A5E36200050-AB