User's Manual
You must have Rack Power Manager software administrator or user administrator rights to add
a user.
To add a user account:
1. Click the Users tab.
2. Click Add. The Add User Account Wizard will appear.
3. The Select Authentication Service window will open. This window lists the Rack Power
Manager software internal service and all the external authentication services that have
been added, which may be used to authenticate users when they log in. See Authentication
Services on page 81.
Select an authentication service and then click Next.
• If you selected RPM Internal, go to step 4.
• If you selected any other authentication service, go to step 5.
4. The Type in User Credentials window will open.
a. Type a username, password and confirm the password of the user you are adding.
Usernames may contain up to 256 non-case sensitive characters (if a RADIUS
external authentication service will be used, the limit is 253 characters).
Usernames are case-preserving. For example, if an account named JDoe is
created, it will be saved as JDoe in the Rack Power Manager server, but a user
may log in as JDoe, jdoe, JDOe and so on.
Passwords may contain 3-64 characters. Passwords will never expire unless
User must change password at next login is selected in the Unit Password
window, or Passwords Expire information is specified in the Authentication
Service User Account Policies window. A Rack Power Manager software
administrator may specify a different minimum character length and change
expiration criteria. See Authentication Services on page 81.
b. To enable users to set their own passwords when they log in to the Rack Power
Manager software, click User must change password at next login.
c. To designate the account as a service account, select the Service Account checkbox. A
service account cannot be used to log in to the Rack Power Manager software. A
service account can be used to impersonate another user over the Web Services API or
GUI Access API. For more information, see the Rack Power Manager software SDK
online help.
212Rack Power Manager Installer/User Guide