ADMINISTRATOR SECTION CHAPTER 2: CONFIGURING THE ER SERVER

Enable, Configure Password Security Option

In the Password Security Options frame, passwords for accessing the Administrator console or Web Client can be set to expire after a specified number of days, and/or lock out the user from accessing the Administrator console and Web Client after a specified number of failed password entry attempts within a defined interval of time.

1.Enable any of the following options:

At the Password Expiration field, click the radio button corresponding to either password expiration option:

Never - Choose this option if passwords will be set to never expire.

Number of ‘x’ days prior to expiration - Choose this option if password will be set to expire after ‘x’ number of days (in which ‘x’ represents the number of days the password will be valid).

NOTES: The maximum number of days that can be entered is 365.

If a user’s password has expired, when he/she enters his/her User Name and Password in the login screen and clicks Login, he/she will be prompted to re-enter his/her User Name and enter a new password in the Password and Confirm Password fields.

At the Lockout by Username field, click the radio button corresponding to either of the following options:

ON - Choose this option to lock out the user by username if the incorrect password is entered—for the number of times specified in the Allowable Number of Failed Password Attempts field—within the interval defined in the Failed Password Attempts Timespan (in minutes) field.

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