Cyclades User's Guide manual Administering Users of Connected Servers, Types of Access to Ports

Administering Users of Connected Servers

Administering Users of Connected Servers

This section reviews the tasks that KVM/net administrators must do to enable access to connected servers.

The “admin” account can add new regular user accounts to allow others to connect to ports and administer or use connected devices.

Types of Access to Ports

The KVM/net administrator can restrict regular user accounts to allow them only to manage specific servers and devices. Each account can have one of the following types of access after login:

•Read only

•Read write

•Read write power

Note: The KVM/net offers access privileges to KVM ports only. Inband connections are authenticated, and the access privileges are granted on the inband server itself.

Tasks Related to Access to Connected Devices

Planning should include the following steps:

•Create a list of servers to connect to the KVM/net.

•Decide whether the servers need to be connected to ports for KVM access, need to have RDP enabled for in-band access, or both.

•Create a list of user accounts with the type of access each user needs to which ports.

•Obtain usernames and passwords with the proper permissions for connected servers to give to the KVM/net users who will connect to these servers.

•Create meaningful aliases to assign to port numbers and to inband Windows Terminal Servers.

•List all the devices that need to be connected to PMs and the users who can access them.

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