Milestone XProtect Advanced VMS 2014 - Manual (Page 177)

Milestone XProtect ® Advanced
VMS 2014
Administrator's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 177 Management Client elements
1. Open the Effective Roles window by expanding Security, then right-clicking Roles >
Effective Roles.
2. In the Effective Roles window's User name field, type the user name of the relevant user or
use the "..." browse button.
3. If you typed the user name directly into the User name, click Refresh in the lower part of the
window to display the roles of the user. If you used Active Directory to browse for the user, the
user's roles are displayed automatically.
Roles settings
Info tab (roles)
On the Info tab of a role, you can set the following:
Name Description
Name Type a name for the role.
Description Type a description for the role.
Management Client profile
Select a Management Client profile to associate with the role.
You cannot apply this to the default Administrators role.
Smart Client profile Select a Smart Client profile to associate with the role.
Default time profile
Select a default time profile to associate with the role.
You cannot apply this to the default Administrators role.
Evidence lock profile Select an evidence lock profile to associate with the role.
Smart Client login within time
profile
Select a time profile for which the XProtect Smart Client user
associated with this role is allowed to log in.
You cannot apply this to the default Administrators role.
Login authorization required
Select the check box to associate login authorization with the role.
It means that XProtect Smart Client or the Management Client asks
for a second authorization, typically by a superuser or manager,
when the user logs in.
To enable administrators to authorize users, configure the
management server's Authorize Users right on the Overall
Security tab.
You cannot apply this to the default Administrators role.
User and Groups tab (roles)
The term users primarily refers to users who connect to the surveillance system through the clients.
You can configure such users in two ways:

As basic users, authenticated by a user name/password combination.