VBrick Systems ETV v3.1 manual User Groups

Content Recording will be shown as an option with all folders selected. You may want to unselect specific folders in order to restrict recording privileges.

Default Content Recording

Used for on-demand recording. You must select a folder above for Allow Content Recording before you can make a folder selection here. Administrators can allow a user the ability to record live content to a specific default folder on an NXG Server by pressing the Record push button below the Preview Window. For ease of use, the Administrator can only assign one default folder where a particular user can record content. This allows one button recording on the ETV Portal Server and is particularly important for Set-Top Box users, who may not be able to enter a recording path with their IR remote control.

Allow VBrick Access

Administrators can allow a user the ability to access all VBricks or only specific VBricks when scheduling events. When scheduling an event, users will see only those VBricks for which they have been granted access.

STB Access

Administrators can allow a user the ability to access all STBs or only specific STBs when scheduling events. When scheduling an event, users will see only those STBs for which they have been granted access.

Schedule Privileges

Users may have full, partial, or no permission to schedule VBrick event. Users with full privileges can modify all configuration parameters in a schedule. Users with partial privileges

cannot modify Advanced Settings.

Emergency Broadcast Privileges

Administrators can specify whether or not a user can launch Emergency Broadcasts.

User Groups

Grouping users is common practice and makes administering access to the ETV Portal Server less complicated than administering access by individual user. The ETV Portal Server server allows the administrator to create User Groups, specify group memberships for users, and set access privileges for the group. A user can be a member of one group or multiple groups.

Group access privileges also can be set and modified on a per group basis.

If an LDAP directory is being used for Authentication, the same group information that is available in the directory can be used to Authorize end users to access the ETV Portal Server. For example, if the organization has three User Groups in its LDAP directory—Marketing, Engineering, and Sales—they can simply create these groups in the ETV Portal Server system, and assign privileges to the groups.

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