Adding Users

After you have added the cameras and organized them into groups, set up users and any other administrators, if required. Users and administrators are set up in the User Management. You set up access permissions at the same time. You can assign rights for users depending on the specific functions they need, whereas an administrator possesses all rights.

See also: User Management

Open the User Management by clicking on in the Header bar. Next, click on Add.

Fig. 57: Creating Users or Administrators

User type and user name

  1. Enter the corresponding user name.
  2. Select the desired user type: user or administrator.

    The user type is set to User by default. The sections Weekly profiles and User rights are available for users, in contrast to administrators. All other settings apply to both user types and will be used in the following description; however, reference will only be made to User.
  3. Use the Active option to enable the new user immediately or later on.

Password

  1. Enter a password and confirm it.
  2. Use the Expires option if you want to require the user to change the password at regular intervals.
  3. If the user is to change the original password upon the next legion, select the Force change on next log in option.

    Note: Activating this option automatically gives the user the "Change Password" right, even if it had been disabled before.
  4. The Force Complex Password option ensures that users can only set secure passwords.

    A secure password has at least eight characters, consists of lowercase and uppercase letters, including at least one special character, one digit and one character. Furthermore, it cannot be one of the last thirteen passwords used on this user account. If you are trying to set a password that does not meet the criteria, a red frame around the text field will appear.

Log in

  1. You can establish a specific setting for time ranges in a weekly profile for users who can only access MxMC at specific times. This section is not displayed when creating an administrator because the administrator always has all rights and access to MxMC .
    Click on Edit weekly profiles to create a weekly profile. The Weekly Profiles dialog opens with the options Weekly profiles and Holidays.
    Weekly profiles
    There are two predefined profiles available from the beginning: the Weekend profile (Saturday 00:00 to Sunday 24:00) and the Working days profile (Monday 00:00 to Friday 24:00).
    • To add a profile, click on . Enter a description. Highlight the desired active times in the table. You can resize an active time block by clicking on the time block and then moving the borders accordingly It is also possible to move a block. Click on the block to select it, then drag the block to the new position. To delete a time block, select one first and then click on .
    • You can change the description of an existing profile. Double-click on the name and overwrite it.
    Holidays
    • To add a holiday, select the date, check "Repeat annually" if required and click on .
    • To delete a holiday, select it and click . existing profile.
  2. Close the dialog box to finish editing the weekly profiles. You can then use the new (or modified) weekly profile in user management. To do so, click on the Weekly Profile box and select the desired profile.Note:
    24 hours is set by default. In this example, the user always has access to MxMC.
  3. Click on the calendar icon to easily invert the settings of the weekly profile. For example, if you have created a profile with access on the weekend and would like to activate the alarms for working days, click on the Invert checkbox and the profile is used in inverted fashion.

Log out

In addition, you can specify after how many minutes of inactivity this user will be automatically logged out.

Every user has all user rights initially. Deactivate the rights that should not be available for a specific user in the User Rights section. This section is not displayed when creating an administrator because the administrator always has all rights.