Cyclades User's Guide - Manual (Page 49)

Introduction 33
Administering Users of Connected Servers
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.
Types of Access to Ports
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.
Tasks Related to Access to Connected Devices
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.