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• Control target device power
• Establish virtual media sessions to target devices (since virtual media sessions are launched
from a Video Viewer session, if you select this option, you should also select Establish
Viewer Sessions)
• Establish reserved virtual media sessions to target devices (since virtual media sessions are
launched from a Video Viewer session, if you select this option, you should also select
Establish Viewer Sessions)
• Configure unit settings - see Target Device Settings on page 125
For certain managed appliances (DS1800 digital switch, DSI5100, CPS and CCM appliances and
DSR switches), you may specify whether a user or members of a user group are allowed to:
• View the appliance in Units View windows (this right is enabled automatically if any other
access right for the managed appliance is enabled)
• Reboot appliance and disconnect sessions - see Rebooting on page 266 and Active Sessions on
page 153
• Flash upgrade appliance - see Upgrading firmware on page 267
• Configure unit settings - see Managed Appliance Network, Authentication Server and Version
Settings on page 122
• Configure appliance local user accounts - see Local Account Settings on page 139 (this option
will not appear for managed appliances that do not support local user accounts)
For example, you may allow users to configure settings on a managed appliance, but not allow
them to reboot and disconnect sessions on it. Instead, you may allow a user who has appliance
administrator privileges on the target devices to establish a Video Viewer session, but not allow
that user to perform power control operations. Access rights may also be specified for all units in
the DSView 3 software system or for a specific unit.
By default, supported embedded units have the same access rights as generic units.
About target device access rights
When you assign access rights to a target device, any available session types may be selected, even
if the target device does not support them. For example, you may enable Video Viewer and virtual
media sessions to a target device that is attached to a CCM appliance, which does not support
virtual media. The target device access rights are not based on the valid type of connection to that
target device - the ability to establish a particular session type exists only when the target device
(through its managed appliance) supports it. Using the above example, if the target device that was
attached to the CCM appliance was later moved to a managed appliance that supported virtual
media sessions, the target device could then be accessed by that method.
Each access right is independent of other access rights. For example, you may enable virtual media
session access to a target device that supports it, but not enable KVM (Video Viewer) session
access to that target device. Since a virtual media session is launched from a KVM session, that
user would, in fact, not be able to open a virtual media session with that target device. The access