Storing Security Configuration Files

After ION Setup pushes the security configuration updates to the meter, it prompts you to store the edited security settings to an encoded Security Configuration File (SCF).

We recommend that you store the SCF file using a new filename when you change the meter security settings. If you do not use a new SCF filename, your changes will overwrite the settings in the SCF file that you opened.

NOTE: If you don't store your security changes to a SCF file, your changes are stored on the meter only; no other record of your security configuration is kept.

ION Setup stores SCF files in the following folder: C:\ProgramData\Schneider Electric\ION Setup\Security

Store your meter’s Security Configuration File (SCF) in a protected location.

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Store Security Configuration Files (SCF) to a secure site.

Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, equipment damage, or permanent loss of data.

Cybersecurity policies that govern how sensitive system files are securely stored vary from site to site. Work with the facility IT System Administrator to ensure that such files are properly secured.

Security log file

The first time you store a SCF file, ION Setup creates a security log file (SECURITY.LOG) in the \Security folder.

The security log file contains the history of security configuration files saved from ION Setup.

Use SECURITY.LOG to track meter security configuration changes and to select the correct SCF file for a meter whose security settings you want to edit or use in another meter.

NOTE: The security log file is stored as plain text.