Ending a session

The Quit or Logout commands ends a session. A session ends automatically when no activity is detected for five minutes, or upon loss of connection.

To end a session:

At the Sentry: prompt, type quit and press Enter, or

Type logout and press Enter.

Administration Commands

Administration commands may only be issued by a user with administrative privileges, such as the predefined Admn user or another user who has been granted administrative privileges with the Set User Admnpriv command.

User Administration

Creating a user account

The Create User command creates a user account with the specified username and password. See Usernames and Passwords in this chapter for more information.

To create a user account:

At the Sentry: prompt, type create user, optionally followed by a 1-16 character username (Spaces are not allowed, and usernames are not case sensitive). Press Enter.

At the Password: prompt, type a password of 1-16 alphanumeric and other typeable characters (ASCII 32 to 126 decimal). Passwords are case sensitive. Press Enter.

At the Verify Password: prompt, retype the password. Press Enter.

Example

The following command creates the user account JaneDoe:

Sentry: create user JaneDoe<Enter>

Password: <Enter>

Verify New Password: <Enter>

For security, password characters are not displayed.

Removing a user account

The Remove User command removes a user account.

NOTE: You may remove the predefined user account Admn only if another user account has been granted administrative privileges using the Set User Admnpriv command.

To remove a user account:

At the Sentry: prompt, type remove user, optionally followed by a username. Press Enter.

Changing a password

The Set User Password command changes a user’s password. For security, when you type a password, the characters are not displayed on the screen. See For units with multiple infeed connectors, absolute names are specified by a period (.) followed by the tower letter, the infeed letter and outlet number.

Example: The absolute name for outlet 8 on the B infeed of tower A is .AB8.

Outlets may also be included in one or more named groups of outlets, enabling you to issue a command that affects all outlets in a named group.

Usernames and Passwords for more information.

To change a password:

At the Sentry: prompt, type set user password, followed by a username and press Enter.

At the Password: prompt, type the new password and press Enter. Passwords may contain 1-16 characters.

At the Verify Password: prompt, retype the new password and press Enter.

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