Tripp Lite B020-016-17-IP owner manual Administration, General, Heading Description

7.Administration (continued)

7.6Administration Page

When you click the Administration tab, the Administration page comes up. Each of the administrative functions is represented by an icon at the left of the page. Clicking the icon brings up its associated dialog box. When the Administration page first comes up the General dialog box appears:

7.6.1 User Management

The User Management dialog box is used to create and manage user profiles. Up to 64 user profiles can be established.

•To delete a user profile, select it in the list box, and click Remove.

•To modify a user profile, select it and click Edit.

•To add a user, click New.

If you choose Edit or New, a dialog box similar to the one below appears:

General

The General Page (shown above) presents four items of information. This is the same information that displays after you log in from a browser, or when you click the General icon at the top left of the browser main page. The meaning of these items is described in the table below:

Item	Description
	This field lets you give the switch a unique
Device Name	name. This can be convenient when you need
	to differentiate among several devices in multi-
	station installations.
MAC Address	This item displays the KVM switch’s MAC
	address.
Firmware Version	This item displays the current firmware version
	number.
Last IP from DHCP	If the switch is on a network that uses DHCP
	assigned IP addresses, this item is a convenient
Server
	way of ascertaining what its IP address is.

Fill in the required information for a new profile, or modify the existing information to edit a previous profile. A description of the field headings is given in the table below:

Heading	Description
Username	A minimum of 6 and a maximum of 15 characters is
	allowed.
Password	A minimum of 8 and a maximum of 15 characters is
	allowed.
Confirm Password	To be sure there is no mistake in the password you are
	asked to enter it again. The two entries must match.
Description	Additional information about the user that you may
	wish to include (optional).
	Gives the user Administrator level access to the KVM
Admin	Switch. All permissions are granted (see Permissions in
	this table).
User Permissions.	Gives the user Windows Client and Java Client (see
	Permissions in this table).
Select	This allows the Administrator to individually select
	permissions for a user.
	These fields are used together with the Select radio
	button to set up permissions that differ from the
	defaults for Admin and User.
	1. Checking Administration assigns administration
	privileges, which allows the user to modify the KVM
	switches Administration page settings.
	2. Checking Windows Client allows a user to access
	the KVM Switch via the Windows Client software. By
	default, all users may access the KVM Switch via
Permissions	the Windows Client software.
	3. Checking Log allows a User to view and query the
	log file. The Log and Log Server buttons appear
	on the Main web page of Users who have Log
	permission (see section 8.2, Webpage Layout).
	4. Checking Java client allows a User to access the
	KVM switch via the Java Client software.
	5. Checking Force to Grayscale forces the user’s view
	of the remote display to be in grayscale. This can
	speed up I/O transfer in low bandwidth situations.

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