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v Server task scheduling: This configures the server to automatically run
reports and send e-mails on a set schedule. The following information is
required:
– Check for scheduled tasks every ___: The frequency (minutes, hours,
or days) that the server should check for scheduled tasks.
– Specify the interval units to be used when scheduling tasks: The
interval unit (minutes, hours, or days) used when task schedules are
created or edited.
Password Settings
You can define how to manage and create user account passwords that are
required to access the System Information Center program by modifying
the following items:
v Password Control Settings:
– Encrypt passwords stored in the database: Whether passwords should
be encrypted. All passwords created prior to modification will retain
the encryption setting defined during the install until the passwords
are changed.
– Allow users to reuse passwords: How often (always, never, after
pre-defined number of days) a user can reuse a password.
– Create new passwords as expired so users must change after first
logon: Require users to establish their own password after receiving
the computer-generated password.
– Expire passwords after ___ days: Whether passwords should expire
and when.
v Password Creation Rules:
– Enable password rule checking: Creation of passwords must follow
certain rules.
– Type of characters passwords must contain: The type of characters
(non-numeric, numeric, or non-alphanumeric) a password must
contain.
– Minimum and maximum length of password: Minimum and
maximum number of characters in the password.
– Maximum number of matching sequential characters: The maximum
number of sequential password characters that can match.
– Maximum number of sequential characters reused from previous
password: The maximum number of sequential password characters
that can be reused in a new password.
Form Settings
You can define fields that are required to be used during asset registration.
Some fields are set by default, but you can change what is selected. You
can select the following items:
v Asset Demographics Form:
– Asset Tag: Asset tag code defined in your enterprise.
– Asset Type: The type of asset.
– Department: The department to which the asset belongs.
– Description: Description of the asset.
– Floor: Floor where the asset is located.
– Location: Location of the asset.
– Owner: Owner of the asset.
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