Cyclades User's Guide Manual De Usuario

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                                 Administering Users of Connected Servers

 

 

This section reviews the tasks that KVM/net administrators must do to enable 
access to connected servers.

The “admin” account can add new regular user accounts to allow others to 
connect to ports and administer or use connected devices.

The KVM/net administrator can restrict regular user accounts to allow them 
only to manage specific servers and devices. Each account can have one of the 
following types of access after login:

•

Read only

•

Read  write

•

Read write power

Note: The KVM/net offers access privileges to KVM ports only. Inband connections 

are authenticated, and the access privileges are granted on the inband server 
itself.

Planning should include the following steps:

•

Create a list of servers to connect to the KVM/net.

•

Decide whether the servers need to be connected to ports for KVM access, 
need to have RDP enabled for in-band access, or both.

•

Create a list of user accounts with the type of access each user needs to 
which ports.

•

Obtain usernames and passwords with the proper permissions for 
connected servers to give to the KVM/net users who will connect to these 
servers. 

•

Create meaningful aliases to assign to port numbers and to inband 
Windows Terminal Servers.

•

List all the devices that need to be connected to PMs and the users who can 
access them.