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Contents
Symbols and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
If You Need Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Avid Training Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 1 Getting Started with Interplay | MAM User Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
About Interplay | MAM User Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Prerequisites for Using User Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
User Manager Configuration Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Basic Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Opening User Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
User Manager Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Navigation Between and Within Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Quitting User Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2 Working with the General View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Layout of the General View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Allowing Empty Passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Changing the Session Timeout. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Setting the External Backend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Chapter 3 Working with Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Layout of the Users View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Adding a New User Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Assigning Users to Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Editing a User Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Deleting a User Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Chapter 4 Working with Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Layout of the Groups View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Adding a New Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Assigning Users to Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Assigning Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Editing Group Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Deleting a Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter 5 Working with Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Layout of the Rights View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Adding a New Rights-Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Editing a Rights-Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Assigning a Rights-Key. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Deleting a Rights-Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Chapter 6 Working with Tenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Layout of the Tenants View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Adding a New Tenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Assigning Tenants to Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Assigning Rights to Tenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing the Tenant Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Deleting a Tenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter 7 Working with Sessions and Session Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Layout of the Sessions View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Displaying Session Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Closing Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Layout of the Session Reports View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Retrieving Session Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Viewing Session Reports and Details. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Exporting Session Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 8 Exporting and Importing User Management Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Layout of the Export View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Understanding Export Dependencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Exporting User Management Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Layout of the Import View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Understanding Import Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Importing User Management Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Appendix Synopsis: User Management Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Category Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Category Browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Category CacheManagement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Category Cataloging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Category CBA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Category Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Category FileTransfers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Category Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Category Import/Export. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Category Ingest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Category Locks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Category MultiTenancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Category Picktool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Category Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Category Retrieval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Category Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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Category Strata. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Category Stratum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Category Thesaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Category Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Category UserManagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Category VideoAnalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Category WebBrowsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Category WSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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Using This Guide
Congratulations on your purchase of Avid
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Interplay
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| Media Asset Manager, a powerful system for
archiving and managing media in a shared storage environment. This guide describes how to use
Avid Interplay | MAM User Manager, an administrative tool that is part of the Interplay MAM
Administrator.
This guide is intended for all users charged with maintaining Interplay Media Asset Manager,
specifically those who need to create and maintain user groups, user accounts and usage rights in
Interplay MAM User Management. This guide contains all the task-oriented instructions and
conceptual information you need to work with the User Manager.
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1 Getting Started with Interplay | MAM User
Manager
The following topics provide basic information to help you get started using Interplay | MAM User
Manager:
• About Interplay | MAM User Manager
• Opening User Manager
• User Manager Views
• Quitting User Manager
About Interplay | MAM User Manager
User Management handles authentication requests and provides account information for each
Interplay Media Asset Manager. For authorization purposes, rights can be defined and assigned to
users, groups, and tenants. A user can be assigned to different groups, but a group always belongs to
exactly one tenant. Users, groups, tenants, and rights are stored in a database (internal users/groups).
Additionally, users and groups can be queried from an LDAP server (currently the ActiveDirectory
and the Posix schema are supported) or WinNT Domain Controller (external users/groups).
To achieve this, Interplay MAM User Management offers an administrative GUI — called User
Manager — that manages the administration of tenants, groups, users, and their access privileges. It
enables you to do the following:
• Configure basic User Management settings
• Create and edit users
• Create and edit groups
• Create and edit tenants
• Create and edit rights
• Display and close sessions of logged-in users
• Display and download session reports
• Export and import User Management data
Prerequisites for Using User Manager
To use User Manager, you need to be a member of an administrator group that has the following
group rights:
• Administration/Platform_Administration
• Administration/Query_UserConfiguration
• Administration/Modify_UserConfiguration
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As an administrator you can review and assign these group rights with User Manager. The default
MAM system administrator account is already configured accordingly.
User Manager Configuration Options
Some of the User Manager GUI elements and features are subject to configuration. The default
MAM installation comes with a full set of default configuration settings for User Management. As an
administrator you can review and adapt these configuration settings in the following MAM System
Administrator profiles:
For additional information, see the “Interplay | MAM Configuration Settings Reference” that is
shipped with the software.
Basic Concepts
When working with User Manager, consider the following basic User Management concepts.
Authentication
Authentication of users or system services is performed by the User Management service. For users,
authentication is part of the login procedure, and system services directly authenticate on the API
level. When an authentication is successful, User Management creates a new session and returns an
access key that uniquely identifies this session. The access key will be used for all subsequent
authorization requests. Users in a multiple-tenancy environment can only sign in for the tenant to
which they belong.
The lifetime of the user session is limited; the session is terminated after a configured time span.
However, the session can be actively refreshed to reset its elapsed time. A session is refreshed by
each user action and only ends when a user remains inactive during a time interval that exceeds the
configured time span. System services also have to refresh their sessions within User Management.
They may also create new sessions on demand.
Authentication can be performed by referring to Interplay MAM User Management, or to an external
user management system such as PDC or Active Directory.
For additional information, see “Changing the Session Timeout” on page 17, “Setting the External
Backend” on page 17, and “Working with Sessions and Session Reports” on page 44.
Authorization
Authorization is managed for user groups as well as single users. Users must be members of at least
one user group to have access to usage rights; then they can perform all actions that are granted to the
group. If a user is a member of different groups, the rights granted to the groups are accumulated, and
Profile Section Affected User Manager Views
UserManagementWSAdmin Display General, Users, Groups, Rights
UserManagementWS Authentication General
UserManagementWS Backend General
UserManagementWS Session General, Sessions
UserManagementWS SessionLogging Session Reports
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the user can perform actions allowed by the accumulated rights. Users who are members of different
tenants only have the rights granted to the groups of the tenant for which they log in. For additional
information, see “Working with Groups” on page 27, and “Working with Rights” on page 34.
Session Reporting
User Management maintains an audit trail in the database that contains information about user and
system sessions that are opened or closed. User Manager has a Session view in which the sessions of
the system accounts bear the name of the components that requested a session. Additionally, User
Manager provides a Session Reports view in which the recorded data can be aggregated for a report
to show the minimum, average, and maximum number of concurrent sessions. For additional
information, see “Working with Sessions and Session Reports” on page 44.
Opening User Manager
User Manager is started from within Interplay MAM Control Center.
To start Interplay MAM User Manager:
1. Do one of the following:
t Open an Internet browser and enter the URL https://<hostname>:9911/ControlCenter/web/
t Double-click the Interplay MAM Control Center icon on your desktop.
The Interplay MAM Control Center login dialog opens.
2. Type your user name and password, and click Login.
Interplay MAM Control Center opens.
3. Click MAM Administrator on the Links pane.
The Interplay MAM Administrator login dialog opens.
4. Type your user name and password, and click Login.
Interplay MAM Administrator opens.
5. Click the User Manager link on the Overview page of Interplay MAM Administrator.
User Manager opens in a new tab.
User Manager Views
Once you have logged in, User Manager opens and displays the view that was set as default (MAM
System Administrator > profile UserManagementWSAdmin > section Display > key StartTab). User
Manager includes the following nine views:
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Navigation Between and Within Views
Besides simply clicking the tab to open a view, consider the following navigation options.
Navigation Within the View
In the Users, Groups, Tenants, and Rights views, the left pane functions a navigation tree: Clicking
an entry loads the information for the selected element in the other panes of the view. Example: If
you are working in the Groups view and click on “admins” in the Groups pane, the three others panes
(Group Info, Group Rights, and Members) are activated and display the data for the “admins” group.
View Function Refer to...
General Sets basic User Management features
(empty passwords, session time out, and
User Management type).
“Working with the General View” on page 16
Users Creates and edits users accounts, maintains
user data and the assignment of users to
groups.
“Working with Users” on page 20
Groups Creates and edits groups, maintains group
data and the assignment of users to groups.
“Working with Groups” on page 27
Tenants Creates and edits tenants, maintains tenant
data and the assignment of groups to
tenants.
“Working with Tenants” on page 39
Rights Creates and edits rights-keys, and
maintains the assignment of rights to
groups.
“Working with Rights” on page 34
Sessions Monitors the sessions of all logged-in users
and allows the closing of sessions.
“Layout of the Sessions View” on page 45
Session Reports Displays session reports and exports the
reports.
“Layout of the Session Reports View” on
page 47
Export Exports User Management data. “Layout of the Export View” on page 51
Import Imports previously exported User
Management data.
“Layout of the Import View” on page 54
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Navigation Between Views
In the Users, Groups, Tenants, Rights, and Session views, all entries are linked: Clicking an entry
opens the corresponding view and selects the entry in the new view. Example: If you are working in
the Groups view and click the Administration/WSM link in the Group Rights pane, the Rights view
is opened automatically; within the Rights view the Administration/WSM right is selected.
Quitting User Manager
When you are finished using User Manager quit the application.
To quit the application:
t Click the X in the User Manager tab.
User Manager quits, but both Interplay MAM Control Center and Interplay MAM Administrator
remain open. You can resume working in both applications or quit.
2 Working with the General View
In most cases you will start using the General view of User Manager — here you set up basic User
Management features. The following topics provide information about the basic options of the
General view:
• Layout of the General View
• Allowing Empty Passwords
• Changing the Session Timeout
• Setting the External Backend
Layout of the General View
The General view is arranged in three sections that provide information and controls to set up basic
User Management functions. The following illustration and table describe the layout of the General
view.
Element Description
1 Version Shows the version number of the MAM services User Management WS and User
Management WS Admin (= User Manager).
2 User Management
Settings
Configures basic User Management settings: Empty password and Session
timeout. For additional information, see “Allowing Empty Passwords” on page 17
and “Changing the Session Timeout” on page 17.
3 External Backend Sets and configures the used external User Management type: None, LDAP, or
Windows NT (PDC). For additional information, see “Setting the External
Backend” on page 17.
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Allowing Empty Passwords
You can create new users by entering a user ID and user name. This type of user does not need a
password to log in to Interplay | MAM. By default, this feature is disabled. To create users without
passwords you must activate the Allow empty passwords feature. You can do this as described in the
following procedure, or by using the MAM System Administrator > profile UserManagementWS >
section Authentication > key AllowEmptyPassword.
To allow empty passwords:
1. Open the General view.
2. Select the Allow Empty Passwords check box.
It takes some time — usually a couple of minutes — until User Management WS updates this
change. It must finish the update before you can add users without a password.
Changing the Session Timeout
Interplay MAM User Management ends inactive user sessions automatically after a predefined
period (60 minutes, by default). Every time a user performs an action the session counter is set back
to zero; as long as the user performs at least one action during the configured session timeout period,
their session will not close automatically. You can change the session timeout as described in the
following procedure, or by using the MAM System Administrator > profile UserManagementWS >
section Session > key Timeout.
To change the session timeout:
1. Open the General view.
2. Overwrite the value in the Session Timeout field.
3. Click Set.
The changed value is applied immediately.
Setting the External Backend
Information about users and groups can be retrieved from the internal database or queried from an
external backend (either an external LDAP server or WinNT Domain Controller). You can configure
the external backend as described in the following procedure, or by using the MAM System
Administrator > profile UserManagementWS > section Backend/External > key Type and by using
the sections Backend/External/LDAP and Backend/External/WinNT.
To set the User Management type:
1. Open the General view.
2. Click the Edit External Backend button.
The Edit Backend dialog opens.
3. Select the backend from the Type list:
t None: No external backend is used
t Ldap: An external LDAP server is used (Active Directory, for example)
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t Windows NT (PDC): An external Windows Domain Controller is used (pre Active
Directory)
4. (Option) If you have selected “Ldap,” specify the following fields:
5. (Option) If you have selected “Windows NT (PDC),” specify the following fields:
Field Function
Schema The LDAP schema used by the directory service. Values are: ActiveDirectory or Posix.
BaseDN The root node (DN) of the LDAP tree that is queried for users and groups.
User Filter An LDAP filter expression that is applied to user searches.
Group Filter An LDAP filter expression that is applied to group searches.
Host Name The host name of the LDAP server. This is the fully qualified domain name of the
server.
Port The port of the LDAP server. If the port is “0,” the default port is used.
BindDN The BindDN (user object) for the client authentication of ADS queries. This can be a
DN (distinguished name in LDAP format), UPN (user principal name,
user@somewhere) or windows account name (without domain).
Password The encrypted password of the user represented by the BindDN.
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6. Click OK.
The Edit backend dialog is closed. Your settings are saved and applied immediately.
Since your MAM installation includes mapping files for supported external backends, all required
mappings are performed automatically. The mapping files can be found in Interplay MAM System
Administrator > User Data tab > Folders UserManagement/ActiveDirectory, UserManagement/
Posix, and UserManagement/WinNT. For additional information, see the Interplay | MAM System
Administrator User’s Guide.
Field Function
Domain Domain name of the Windows NT domain
User User name for client authentication
Password Encrypted password of the user
3 Working with Users
In the Users view, you can add new users to Interplay MAM local User Management, or remove
users who no longer need access. You can assign users to user groups, change the passwords of users,
and edit their personal data. Additionally, you can see the date and time when the user last logged in
to Interplay MAM.
The following topics provide information about the basic actions you can perform on user accounts:
• Layout of the Users View
• Adding a New User Account
• Assigning Users to Groups
• Assigning Rights
• Editing a User Account
• Deleting a User Account
Layout of the Users View
The Users view includes four panes that provide controls to set up and edit user accounts. The
following illustration and table describe the layout of the Users view.
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