Adder Technology Switch manual Organising users and groups, Using the User/Group Management panel

3As all SmartView World devices are shipped with the same login and password settings, your new ‘default’ setup will offer easy unauthorised access to any knowledgeable users. Therefore, your first step MUST be to change the standard supervisor password - see below.

4After changing the standard supervisor password, you are then advised to perform the following stages to prepare the system for general use:

•Organise users and groups, and determine their access rights ð.

•Select appropriate security settings for your installation.

•Determine how computer ports are displayed and selected.

•Display the Remote Console window and synchronise operation.

To change the superuser’s password

1Within the SmartView World home page, select the ‘User/ Group Management’ option in the ‘Administration’ section. The User Management panel will be displayed.

2Use the ‘Existing users’ control to select the ‘super’ entry and then click the ‘Lookup User’ button. The existing details held for the superuser will be displayed (the existing password will not be displayed).

3In the ‘Password’ field, enter a new password and then repeat the new password in the ‘Confirm Password’ text box.

4Click the ‘Modify User’ button. If the change is carried out, then the panel will display a message at the top to confirm this.

Organising users and groups

The IP section of the SmartView World has the ability to maintain multiple lists of individual users as well as groups of users. Each user can be assigned a separate login and password, and each can be allowed access to different sets of menu panels. Where numerous users will be granted access it is often advantageous to collect them together within one or more groups, where permissions can be arranged collectively. Users placed within groups can inherit global group settings, maintain their own or obtain a mixture of both depending on how options are set. Individual users can be added to any number of groups and can then inherit differing permissions from those groups. In this way a hierarchical arrangement of users can be organised, as required.

The organisation of users and groups are split into two functional areas:

•User/Group Management (see below) – In this panel, users and groups alike can be created, copied, modified and deleted. Here also, users can be assigned into groups.

•User/Group Permissions – In this panel, individual users and/or groups can be assigned access rights to the various features and menus within the IP section of the SmartView World.

Using the User/Group Management panel

To add a user

1Within the SmartView World home page, select the ‘User/Group Management’ option in the ‘Administration’ section. The User Management panel will be displayed.

2Enter a suitable login name into the ‘New user name’ field. Use the ‘Full user name’ field to enter a more complete name by which the user will be identified within the system.

Note: Spaces are not permitted in user or group names, or within passwords. As users and groups are stored within the same list, it is advisable to name users and groups distinctly so that they are easy to differentiate.

3Enter a suitable login password into the ‘Password’ field (characters are represented by ‘*’) and then repeat the password in the field below.

Note: To maximise security, ensure that all passwords are at least eight characters long and that they include a mixture of upper and lower case letters, as well as numerals.

4 Optionally enter an email address and mobile phone number.

5You can add the new user to a group either this stage or at any time later on. The ‘Not member of’ field indicates the groups that are currently available. To add the new user, click on a group name and click the ‘<-’ button. You can repeat this procedure to also add the user to other groups.

6 Click the ‘Create User’ button to add the entered details into the list of users.

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