Adder Technology AVM216MP User Manual

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AdderView MATRIX MP
Installation and Use
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3.4 Creating and editing user accounts
To create user accounts:
  Ensure that you are logged on as the ADMIN user.
  From the main on-screen menu press 
F1 for MORE MENUS.
  Select 
EDIT USER LIST from the menu.
  Press 
INSERT to add a new user.
  Type in the name of the new user and press 
RETURN or ENTER.
  Type in the password for the new user and press 
RETURN or ENTER.
(You may leave the password field blank if you do not want to define a password)
  Define the computers that you want this user to have access to using the 
SPACE
BAR and function keys as directed on the menu. The user will have access to all
the starred (selected) computers. Don't worry if all the computers have not yet
been defined. You can allocate users access to computers when you add the
computer names later.
  Press 
RETURN or ENTER to create the user.
Follow a similar process to edit users:
In the 
EDIT USER LIST use the menu bar to select the user that you want to edit.
Press 
ENTER or RETURN to edit the user's name, password and access rights.
Press 
RETURN or ENTER if you want to keep the existing entries.
3.5  Creating and editing computer names
Computer names provide a very convenient way of selecting and identifying
computers that are attached to the AdderView MATRIX MP. You can select
computers by port number (see sections 4.8 and 4.15) but when you have several
computers it becomes hard to remember which computer is attached to which port.
By defining descriptive computer names you can select the required computer from
an on-screen menu without having to remember which physical port the computer is
connected to. For each computer name that you define you can grant or deny
access to any of the defined users.
Each computer name that you define will have an associated port number. This is
the AdderView port that the computer is attached to. If all of your computers are
connected to a single AdderView MATRIX MP then all the port numbers will be two
characters long (for example: 01, 02, 03, 16 etc.). If you are cascading AdderView