Dan, Had a terrible time in Africa with a Delta V system when IT tried to become involved so they could "protect" the DCS Assets. First thing they did was to implement their own passwords, which in the Delta V world is like throwing a wrench into some pretty delicate works. The adventures went on and on despite my pleas that they just leave the control system completely alone. Have you read your children the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie..."? You have been warned. Rick Guercio, P.E. RG Consulting 918 E Desert Shrub Drive Washington, UT 84780 713-805-8742 cell In a message dated 1/18/2012 11:04:26 A.M. Central Standard Time, foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: My past experience with our company IT is that if it is shared they still own it. If there is any way in the world not to share resources with IT I would not. We very early in the DCS game shared fiber with IT and paid the price with them doing "maintenance" and making my system go blind until I ever so genteelly got them to return a hub to service. For those that know me there was no genteelly involved. _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave