Adding Users
1.Select Users on the menu bar (Browser GUI) or Select Users in the Sidebar (AP GUI).
2.Click Add at the bottom of the main panel. The User notebook opens, with the User tab selected:
3.Enter the required information in the fields.
Field | Description |
Username | From 1 to16 characters are allowed depending on the Account Policy settings. |
| See “Account Policy” on page 76. |
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Password | From 0 to16 characters are allowed depending on the Account Policy settings. |
| See “Account Policy” on page 76. |
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Confirm Password | Enter the password again to confirm it is correct. The two entries must match. |
Description | Additional information about the user that you may wish to include. |
Role | Three categories: Super Administrator, Administrator and User. No limit on the |
| number of accounts created in each category. |
| • The Super Administrator is responsible for the overall installation configuration |
| and maintenance; user management; and device and port assignments. The |
| Super Administrator's permissions are system assigned and cannot be altered. |
| • The default permissions for Administrators include everything except Force to |
| Grayscale, but the permissions can be altered for each Administrator by |
| checking or unchecking any of the permissions checkboxes. |
| • The default permissions for Users include the Win, Java, and SSH clients. |
| Permissions can be altered for each User by checking or unchecking any of the |
| permissions checkboxes. |
| Note: Users who have User Management privileges cannot access or configure |
| Groups. |
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Permissions | • Enabling Device Management allows a user to configure and control the settings |
Note: For ordinary | for overall KVM switch operations (see “Device Management” on page 67). |
users, in addition to | • Enabling Port Configuration allows a user to configure and control the settings |
enabling Device | for individual ports (see “Port Configuration” on page 55). |
Management, Port | • Enabling User Management allows a user to create, modify, and delete user and |
Configuration, and | group accounts. |
Maintenance | • Enabling Maintenance allows a user to perform all the Maintenance operations |
permissions, the user | available under the Maintenance tab (see “Maintenance” on page 92). |
must also be given | • Enabling System Log allows a user to access the system log (see “Log” on |
those rights for each | page 90). |
device and port that he | • Enabling View Only limits users to only viewing the display of connected |
will be allowed to | devices. |
manage. See“Device | • Enabling Windows Client allows a user to download the Windows Client AP |
Assignment” on | software, and access the KVM switch with it, in addition to (or instead of) the |
page 64 for details. | browser access method. |
| • Enabling Java Client allows a user to download the Java Client AP software, and |
| access the KVM switch with it, in addition to (or instead of) the browser access |
| method. |
| • Enabling SSH Client allows a user to access the switch from an SSH session. |
| • Enabling Telnet Client allows a user to access the switch from a Telnet session. |
| • Force to Grayscale forces the user's remote display view to be in grayscale. This |
| can speed up I/O transfer in low bandwidth situations. |
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