User`s guide

Getting Started with VCM Components
and Tools
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Getting Started with VCM Components and
Tools
This chapter covers global getting started procedures for VCM and all of its components and tools. After
completing this chapter, proceed to the specific getting started chapters that apply to the components you
have licensed and the VCM tools you plan to use. The remaining getting started chapters build on this one.
Therefore, you should have a solid understanding of the content in this chapter before you proceed to the
remaining chapters.
This chapter describes:
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Understanding User Access
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Launching and Logging onto VCM
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Getting Familiar with the Portal
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Where to Go Next
Understanding User Access
After your installation is complete, the user who performed the installation is explicitly granted access and
is placed in the roles of ADMIN and USER. This user is also placed into the Admin role. Hence, this user
can immediately log in using the Admin role. The role of AD_Admin allows full administration access to
AD objects only.
Other user accounts can then be added after the Admin user logs in by going to Administration > User
Manager > VCM Logins. For instructions on how to add user accounts, see the online Help.
Whenever a user is either added to the Admin role in VCM, or granted access to the Administration >
User Manager node, the user is placed in the fixed machine roles Security Administrators and Bulk Insert
Administrators Groups. They are also added to the database roles public, ADMIN, and User on the VCM
Database.
Users who will not have access to the Administration > User Manager node will be assigned to public.
Depending on the functions granted to any particular user, more or fewer privileges may be needed in
order for their role to function properly.
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