Users; Adding New Users - ADDER .NET User Manual

Users

The Users section allows you to determine which
devices, device clusters and host computers each user
is permitted to access.
User Groups provide a simplified means to administer
access rights collectively to any number of individual
users. Where necessary, one or more User Groups can
be included within other User Groups to create staged
layers of grouping.
The Users menu provides access to the following
items:
Browse – Displays the User Browser page so that you
can see a list of all registered users, each showing
the name, user type and description. Click the
Manage button for the required user to see further
information.
Search – Allows you to enter various criteria on which
to search for a particular user.
Add – Allows you to define the characteristics of a
new user and add them to the list.
Browse User Groups – Displays the User Group
Browser page so that you can see a list of all registered
user groups. Click the Manage button for the required
user group to see further information and make
changes.
Search User Groups – Allows you to search for user
groups by name or description.
Add User Group – Allows you to create new user
groups and to define the devices and hosts that they
should be permitted to access.

Adding new users

To add a new user
1 On the ADDER.NET Manager menu bar, place your mouse pointer over Users and then
choose Add from the drop down list. The New User page will be displayed:
2 When all details have been completed for the new user, click the Submit Changes
button. The details will be stored within the ADDER.NET database. ADDER.NET will
then display the User Manager for the new user, from where it is possible to set up and
modify the access privileges of the new user.
Enter and confirm
Enter the name
the password for
of the new user.
the new user.
Choose whether the new user will
have access to all areas of ADDER.
NET (Manager) or only to the
Connector section.
Optionally enter a If the User Type is set to
description for the Manager, select the initial page
new user. that the new user will see when
first logging into ADDER.NET.
Determines the Choose the
number of entries language in which
possible in the the ADDER.NET
list of Targets menus, entry
Accessed Most labels, error
Recently (visited messages, defined
host computers) values, etc. should
shown within the be presented to
Connector section. the user.
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