Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual Copying and pasting user preferences

6 User accounts

Copying and pasting user preferences

Enables you to copy user preference settings, such as window and dialog box sizes, table column and sort order, as well as other customizations, and all the user-defined views (including fabrics and hosts) from the selected user account to one or more other user accounts.

If the fabric and hosts from the original user account are not included in the other user's AOR, then the copied fabrics and hosts do not display in the other user's views. To include fabrics and hosts from the original user account, you must add them to the other user's account (refer to “Assigning roles and areas of responsibility to a user account” on page 188).

If a user-created view with the same name already exists in the other user's views, user-defined views with the same name are ignored. For example, user_acct1 (copy) has the following user-defined views: Fabric1, Fabric2, and Host1 and user_acct2 (paste) has the following user-defined views: Fabric1, Fabric_CO, and Hosts. When you paste the user_acct1 user preferences to user_acct2, user_acct2 now has the following user-defined views: Fabric1, Fabric2, Fabric_CO, Host1, and Hosts.

NOTE

You cannot copy user preferences to user accounts that are currently logged in to the Management application.

NOTE

You cannot copy user preferences to the original user account.

1.Select Server > Users.

The Users dialog box displays.

2.Select the user account you want to copy user preferences from and click Copy User Preferences under the Users table.

3.Select the user account you want to copy user preferences to and click Paste User Preferences under the Users table.

If you need to make any other changes to this user account, refer to “Editing a user account” on page 187.

4.Click Yes on the confirmation message.

5.Click Close to close the Users dialog box.

Assigning roles and areas of responsibility to a user account

To assign roles and AORs to an existing user account, complete the following steps.

1.Select Server > Users.

The Users dialog box displays.

2.Select the user account you want to edit and click Edit under the Users table. The Edit User dialog box displays.

3.Assign roles and AORs by selecting the role or AOR in the Available Roles / AOR table and click the right arrow button to move the role or AOR to the Selected Roles / AOR table.

Select multiple roles or AORs by holding down the CTRL key and clicking more than one role or AOR.

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