User's Manual

Managing User Accounts
Page 196 FlexWave Prism Host, Remote and EMS 5.1 System Reference
© 2009 ADC Telecommunications, Inc ADCP-77-073 • Issue 2 • 11/2009
8.1 FLEXWAVE EMS USER ACCOUNTS
The EMS provides security, which can be broadly classified as:
•
User Authentication
, which defines the way a user is identified prior to being
allowed to log on to the EMS. User Authentication ensures that only known users
have access by providing a method of identifying each user through a user ID and
password.
•
User Authorization
, which involves managing the user’s privileges in the Prism
network management infrastructure. Authorization is based on the concept of
user access system configuration restrictions.
There are three user-access levels that can be assigned by the admin:
•• admin—the default user account that has unrestricted access to all EMS user
accounts and management capabilities. To protect against unauthorized access to
the Prism network, the user assigned the admin role should follow the process
described in “Changing Your Own Password” on page 208 to change the password
for the admin user account.
•• Network Manager—has read and write access to all system functions except user
account management.
•• Network User—has read only permissions into the system.
There are also two default user-access levels for the Remote that cannot be deleted
or changed:
•• Operator—has Read and Write access to only the Prism Remote functions, all
other operations are Read Only. (This user is not available on URH Remotes.)
•• Viewer—has Read Only rights for Prism and URH Remotes.
FlexWave EMS prevents a login in which the user enters an invalid User ID or
password.