User Guide

Collection Management
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Collection Management allows Data Center Planner to restrict users access to specified plans and assets.
Administrators can select plans and floor-mounted assets to create a new collection and assign it a role with write
or read-only rights, so that the user can access plans and floor-mounted assets appropriately.
The Collection Management feature is disabled by default and can only be enabled by the server administrator
where Data Center Planner is installed using the following steps. When the server administrator enables the
collections feature, the Data Center Planner administrator can then create collections.
NOTE: The Collection Management tab is not selectable if Collection Management is disabled or if the logged in user does not have the
appropriate rights.
To enable Collection Management:
1. The server administrator must edit the following file: \[AMP_HOME]\conf\extention.xml using a text file
editor.
2. In the text file editor, locate the line containing the text "<target name="AccessControl">".
3. Edit the next line containing text "<property name="isEnabled" value="".
4. Change the text to value="true" to enable.
5. Restart the application for the change to take effect.
6. To disable, change the text to value="false" and restart the application. It is recommended to leave this feature
disabled if no collections are needed.
Collection Access Control
The following table describes access control in Collection Management.
Access to Description
Plans -
Open/Copy/Delete/Save
With the access control function, you can only view plans for which you have access rights.
Floor-mounted assets
To access floor-mounted assets in a plan, you must be assigned right access to the plan and based on this plan,
you must be assigned access to the selected floor-mounted assets. When you open one plan, all floor-mounted
assets are listed, but you can only access assets for which you have rights. If some assets in plan are not
controlled by right access, that asset can be accessed by anyone who has plan rights.
Inventory/Capacity
search
You can only search for plans for which you have rights. If you have access to a plan, you may not have access to
all of the assets in that plan.
Capacities
If you cannot access any assets in the plan, then capacities cannot be computed or shown in colors. If you have
access to specific assets, then capacities are computed and shown in color for those assets.
Show asset labels You can only use the Show Asset Labels option for plans and assets for which you have access.
Table 7.1: Collections Access Control Descriptions