FrameworX Enterprise IT Readiness Reference

Install, identity, audit, and monitoring posture for IT teams operating FrameworX in enterprise and regulated environments.

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Version 10.1.5+

Overview

The Enterprise IT Readiness Reference is the operations-time companion to the DevOps and Version Control Reference. Engineering teams managing solution change use the DevOps reference (Track Changes, JSON / Git export, impact analysis — author-time concerns). IT teams deploying and operating the product use this page (install, identity, audit, monitoring — operations-time concerns). The two paths overlap on audit and compliance and cross-link there.

Audience: IT administrators, security officers, and compliance leads at customer organizations. The page is a navigation hub — each section either summarizes the platform posture or points at the deep reference page that documents it.

Three Workspaces and where AI lives

FrameworX has three workspaces. Each has a different role in the lifecycle, a different identity model, and a different AI tool surface.

The two MCP families serve different jobs, run on different hosts, authenticate differently, and need different audit. A Designer-side write to a tag definition is a config change; a runtime-side tool call that reads a tag value is an observation. Different audit posture, different threat model.

Identity Model Today

OIDC and OAuth 2.0 support for runtime operator login is shipped in 10.1.5 — see Security Identity Providers Reference for the full provider configuration story.

MCP Scoping — the 5 gate bits

The runtime tool surface is gated by five bit flags on Solution Settings → Data Servers → MCP for Runtime. These are the security officer's primary control surface. There is no per-tool ACL and no role-based binding from operator identity to specific tools — the five bits are the scope model.

For deployments where the solution does not author Custom Tools, leaving Enable Custom Tools off makes the runtime MCP surface read-only by construction. No further controls are required to keep AI clients from changing plant state.

Three Audit Sinks

FrameworX emits audit evidence into three sinks. Each is owned by a different layer and has a different regulatory weight. The platform does not federate them into a single internal log — that integration belongs at the customer SIEM (Splunk, Datadog, Azure Sentinel, the Elastic Stack).

The customer points each sink at their collector and joins on timestamp, host, and correlation tokens at the SIEM layer. Making FrameworX an internal aggregator would build a half-baked SIEM and a new attack surface; both are deliberately out of scope.

MCP Audit for Custom Tool Execution

Every Custom Tool execution by an MCP-connected client is recorded in the kernel AuditTrail under the MCPCustomTools category. The category is enabled per solution from Alarms → Global Settings → AuditTrail; same enable-flag model as every other AuditTrail category.

What is logged:

• Tool name — the user method invoked.

• Arguments — full JSON, recorded in the audit row. Mirrors the LoadDatasets precedent already used for SQL queries against datasets.

• Caller chain — A for an external AI client connected through RuntimeMCP or RuntimeMCPHttp, B for the TServer-embedded operator chat.

• User — the HMI-authenticated operator for Chain B; the literal token MCP for Chain A in 10.1.5 (Chain A is service-account by design and carries no operator identity).

• Result status — OK or error.

What is not logged: read-only MCP tool calls (tag reads, object-model browse, UNS search, alarm and historian reads). Reads are not regulated by FDA 21 CFR Part 11, NERC CIP-007, or IEC 62443 SR 6 — auditing every read produces noise no compliance officer asked for.

Privacy posture. Arguments are recorded in cleartext, mirroring how every other AuditTrail category that captures input data behaves — LoadDatasets logs the full SQL, TagChanges logs old and new values, OperatorActions logs tag-write payloads. Privacy is gated by the AuditTrail enable-flag, not by the message content. Hashing was considered and rejected: it would be the only category in the audit framework that hides input, and a hash cannot be diffed against a later support-ticket complaint.

Refused MCP connections are already audited under the existing RemoteConnections AuditTrail category — client IP, module, username, and refusal reason. No additional configuration required.

Compliance Hooks

FrameworX is validated by customers in regulated deployments. The platform provides the audit and configuration evidence the regimes below require; the customer maps their own controls and their own validation evidence to that.

FDA 21 CFR Part 11 §11.10(e)

Audit-trail record of control actions by authenticated users. The kernel AuditTrail (TagChanges, OperatorActions, RemoteConnections, MCPCustomTools) provides the record. Electronic-signature requirements (§11.50, §11.70) are covered by the existing Security → Policies → Electronic Signature configuration and remain independent.

IEC 62443 SR 6.1 — Audit Log

Audit log entries for control actions by users and processes. The same three AuditTrail categories cover users (Chain B operators, runtime login) and processes (Chain A service accounts).

NERC CIP-007 R4 — Security Event Monitoring

Logging access and changes to Bulk Electric System cyber assets. Refused MCP connections, MCP Custom Tool executions, and Windows Service Control Manager start / stop / termination events together cover cyber-asset access and change.

ISO 27001 A.8.15 — Logging

The three-sink model (Kernel AuditTrail, Designer LogMCP, Windows System Event Log) provides logging across the platform stack. Sink-level retention and forwarding policy is configured by the customer.

Validated by customers in regulated deployments — not certified. Formal product-level certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, IEC 62443-4-1) are on the roadmap; see the roadmap section below.

In-flight 10.1.5 Deliverables

Pages and references that an IT team starting a 10.1.5 deployment will read alongside this one:

• IT Deployment RunBook — the operational install / configure / monitor / update workflow for Windows Server deployments.

• Docker Deployment Guide — container-based deployment.

• TLS and SSL Configuration — transport security for runtime client-server, web client, and REST endpoints.

• TManageServices CLI — script-friendly Windows Service install, uninstall, and lifecycle automation.

• Multi-Language UI Localization — localized operator UI for international deployments.

• Security Hardening Reference — detailed hardening checklist for production runtime servers.

Health Endpoint Posture

Every FrameworX runtime HTTP listener — TServer and TWebServices — exposes /health and /ready endpoints. The endpoints are designed for use as Kubernetes liveness and readiness probes and for native pickup by SCOM, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Splunk, and other HTTP-probing monitoring tools.

Both endpoints return JSON with Content-Type: application/json and Cache-Control: no-store. The body carries the product version, uptime in seconds, and process start timestamp — enough for a probe to differentiate "service restarted recently" from "service has been up for hours."

Per-module status detail (a moduleStatuses dictionary listing each runtime module's individual health) is not part of the 10.1.5 endpoint payload; that field lands in a future release. For 10.1.5, the global status and IsReady fields are the readiness contract.

For deployments that need finer-grained insight than the HTTP probes provide, the Runtime System Monitor exposes live per-module metrics, client session counts, memory, and tag throughput.

Roadmap Pointer

Capabilities planned for the next minor releases. Detail will land on dedicated reference pages as each capability ships; this section is a stub-level pointer.

Fleet management

Multi-node management — monitor status, deploy solutions, batch start / stop, fleet-wide updates across N FrameworX installations. Specification phase. No 10.1.5 commitment.

ProgramData logs and Windows Event Log integration

A custom FrameworX Windows Event Log source for granular events — license failure, solution load error, module exception — with optional default routing of operational data under C:\ProgramData\Tatsoft\FrameworX\. In 10.1.5, Windows Service Control Manager already logs basic service start, stop, and unexpected termination events to the System log under source Service Control Manager for any installed FrameworX service; SCOM, Datadog, Azure Monitor, and PRTG pick those up natively.

winget package

winget convenience package layered over the existing signed silent installer. The 10.1.5 silent installer already integrates directly with SCCM, Intune, Ansible, and PowerShell DSC; winget is a future convenience layer, not a blocker.

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