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CREATING A NEW USER
1. Place your mouse pointer over the Users and Groups tab.
2. Select Users from the drop-down menu.
3. Click in the Username box and type a user name (2 to 23 alphanumeric characters). User names are not case-sensitive and are saved in
lowercase characters.
4. Click in the Password box and type a password (4 to 16 alphanumeric characters). Passwords are case-sensitive.
5. Click in the Retype Password box and retype your password.
6. Click in the First Name box and type the user’s first name (1 to 32 alphanumeric characters).
7. Click in the Last Name box and type the user’s last name (1 to 32 alphanumeric characters).
8. Click in the Email box and type the user’s email address.
9. Select the appropriate check boxes to choose the groups you want to assign to the user. The Users page includes default accounts for the
following groups:
Select All: Selects all group definitions.
Administrators: This is the only defined group that cannot be deleted. This group has access to all permissions.
Managers: This defined group can be modified or deleted. This group has access to all permissions except the restore factory defaults
permission.
Public: This defined group can be modified or deleted. The default permission for this group is single stream view.
Operators: This defined group can be modified or deleted. The default permissions for this group are single stream view, stream selection,
and multistream view.
Viewers: This defined group can be modified or deleted. The default permissions for this group are single stream view and multistream
view.
10. Click the Save button to save the settings and create a new user. The new user profile appears in the box on the left side of the page. Click
the Reset button to clear all of the information you entered without saving it.
EDITING A USER
1. Place your mouse pointer over the Users and Groups tab.
2. Select Users from the drop-down menu.
3. Click the user profile that you want to edit from the box on the left side of the page.
4. Double-click in each of the text boxes to highlight the text. Type the new information in each text box.
NOTE: The username cannot be modified; this text box is read-only.
5. Select or clear the appropriate check boxes from the groups list.
6. Click the Save button to save the settings, or click the Reset button to clear all of the information you entered without saving it.
DELETING A USER
1. Place your mouse pointer over the Users and Groups tab.
2. Select Users from the drop-down menu.
3. Click the user profile that you want to delete from the defined users section located in the box on the left side of the page.
4. Click the Delete User button. A dialog box appears with the message “Are you sure you want to delete the user?”
5. Click OK. The user profile is deleted from the defined user profiles section.
NOTE: The “admin” user cannot be deleted.