User guide

Chapter 5: Managing User Accounts 161
To specify notes about a user:
1. In a User Accounts window, click on a username. Name will automatically be selected in the
side navigation bar and the User Name window will open.
2. Click Notes in the side navigation bar. The User Notes window will open.
3. Type the information you wish to note about the DSView user.
4. Click Save and then click Close. The User Accounts window will open including any changes.
Changing custom field properties
NOTE: This property may only be modified for users using internal authentication. See Managing Authentication
Services on page 58 for more information.
Six custom fields for users are provided within the DSView management software. You may
specify any information you wish in these fields for display in the User Accounts window.
To change the custom fields:
1. In a User Accounts window, click on a username. Name will automatically be selected in the
side navigation bar and the User Name window will open.
2. Click Custom Fields in the side navigation bar. The User Custom Fields window will appear.
3. Type the information in the fields you wish to define.
4. Click Save and then click Close. The User Accounts window will open including any changes.
Displaying User Access Rights
The access rights of one or more user groups and/or users may be associated to one or more units.
For example:
• A user is created with the login name johnsmith.
• The user is then assigned to the User Administrators group.
• A DSR1021 switch is added to the DSView software system.
• Using the Unit Access Rights window, the User Administrators group is assigned to the
DSR1021 switch and various rights are assigned to the switch. The user johnsmith will have
the rights assigned to the user administrators group as long as he is a member of the group. If
johnsmith is removed from the user administrators group, he will no longer have the rights of
the group.
Alternatively, if the user administrators group was not going to be assigned access rights to the
DSR1021 switch, access rights could be added for only the user johnsmith.
See Adding User Accounts on page 153, Managing User Groups on page 163 and Changing Unit
Access Rights on page 102 for more information.