VBrick Systems ETV v4.2.1 manual Configuring Users, Create Resource Groups on the Portal Server

Users and User Groups

4. Create Resource Groups on the Portal Server

In the Portal Server software, providing a user with Resources refers to providing them access to a particular functionality of the EtherneTV system. These include the ability to:

•View Live Channels.

•View VOD content.

•Publish content to the VOD.

•Record content or schedule a recording.

•Launch a priority alert.

A unique feature of the Portal Server software is the ability to group Resources into Resource Groups. This allows the administrator to quickly and easily assign several resources at once to more than one User or User Groups. This also makes the ongoing management of this content for these Users or User Groups much easier.

For example, if the organization has three User Groups—Marketing, Engineering, and Sales—they might create four resource groups. These Resource Groups would be Full Access, which are resources that everyone can see, and one Resource Group for each of the user groups. Full Access would be assigned to all user groups, and the Marketing Resource Group would be assigned to the Marketing User Group, the Engineering Resource Group to the Engineering User Group, and the Sales Resource Group to the Sales User Group.

Resource Groups provide the added bonus that they allow the Administrator to quickly provide access to new content to Users and User Groups. For example, if the organization originally had ten Live Channels on the network, and another Live Channel was added, the Administrator would simply need to add that Channel to the appropriate Resource Groups and the channel would be available.

5. Create Users on the ETV Portal Server

Creating users is an optional step that can be completed for the following reasons.

•The organization needs to provide a single user with additional privileges above and beyond what is available to his or her User Group or Resource Group.

•The organization wants to authenticate STB users using a PIN.

•Users can be assigned to multiple User Groups.

6.Assign Resources to Users or User Groups

The final step is to provide access to Resources to Users and/or User Groups. The administrator can assign individual resources to Users or User Groups, or can assign Resource Groups (if created) to Users or User Groups. Detailed information on the steps to configure access control and provide access to resources to Users and/or User Groups is provided in the following sections.

Configuring Users

There are several different ways to provide privileges to different User and User Groups with the ETV Portal Server. The easiest way is to use the group structure of an existing LDAP database. LDAP User Groups can be added to the ETV Portal Server system and assigned permissions (see User Groups below). All of the users in this group will have the same

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