Working with Server Admin users

The following types of user are available in Server Admin

Server Admin

Server Admin users are assigned to one or more particular Enterprise servers. For the Enterprise servers to which they are assigned, they can:

• Start and stop Enterprise servers.
• View event logs.
• Create and edit data sources.
• Reregister data sources.
• Create, edit and delete user-defined fields.
• Create, edit and delete user-defined enumerators.
• Create, edit and delete user-defined tables.
• Specify that projects and baselines should be premounted.

Admin

When Server Admin is used with a single company, these are the top-level users. When Server Admin is used with multiple companies, Admin users are associated with one particular company.

Admin users can carry out the same tasks as Server Admin users - but for any Enterprise server, as they are not associated with one or more particular Enterprise servers - and can also:

• Create Enterprise servers.
• Delete Enterprise servers.
• Create, edit and delete users.
• Create, edit and delete security groups.
• Assign users to Enterprise servers.
• Assign security groups to Enterprise servers.

Company Admin

When Server Admin is used with multiple companies, these are the top-level users. Unlike other user types, you create a Company Admin user when you first set up Server Admin in a multi-company environment; you cannot create, edit and delete them in the same was as the other types of user. When Server Admin is used with a single company, Company Admin users are not required.

Company Admin users can carry out the same tasks as Admin users, but for all companies as they are not associated with one particular company. They can also:

• Create companies.
• Edit companies.
• Delete companies.

To create a Server Admin or Admin user:

1. Click Create New. The Create New User page appears.
2. If you are a Company Admin user, a Company field appears on this page. Select the company to which the user belongs in this field.
   
   If you are an Admin or Server Admin user, this field does not appear, as you can only create users within your own company.
3. Enter the email address that the user will use to log into Server Admin in the Email field.
4. Enter a suitable password with which to access Server Admin in the Password field. Passwords must contain at least one upper-case character, at least one lower-case character, at least one digit and at least one non-alphanumeric character, and must be at least six characters in length.
5. Re-enter the password in the Confirm password field.
6. If you want to see the password as you type it into the fields, select the Show passwords check box; if there is a chance you may be overlooked while typing the password, clear this check box for greater security.
7. Select the type of user you want to create in the Available roles field.
8. If you are creating a Server Admin user, select the Enterprise server - or servers - to which the user should have access in the Managed servers field. You can select multiple Enterprise servers by CTRL or SHIFT-selecting servers in this field. Server Admin users will be able to carry out tasks for the selected Enterprise servers, but not for any other servers.
9. Click Create.

To edit a user:

1. Click the user that you want to edit. The Edit User page appears.
2. Edit the details of the user as required.
3. Click Save. You return to the Server Admin Users page.

To delete a user:

1. Click Delete to the right of the user that you want to delete. A popup appears, asking you to confirm whether you want to delete the user.
2. Click OK. You return to the Server Admin Users page and the user is deleted.