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The Account page is found under the Administration sectionTo access user management functions, click Administration at the top of the License Statistics web page to access the User Management tab. (Note: You must have License Statistics administrator privileges to use the user account management features of License Statistics. If you do not have administrator privileges, you will not see an Administration link at the top of the License Statistics web page.)

From the User Management tab Accounts page, you can enable automatic user account creation, manually create new usersaccounts, edit user account details, and delete user accounts, as described below. You can also enable/disable authentication from this page.

For information about creating user accounts automatically using LDAP, see Automating user account creation using LDAP. Connecting to an LDAP server.

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To add a License Statistics user account:

1. In the Administration pageAccounts page, click Create New User button in the upper right corner of the Authentication Settings title bar to open the Create New User dialog: the Add button below the Accounts table.
   A Create Account dialog opens, with the General tab open.
   Initially, you must proceed through the tabs by using the Next button after filling in the required information in the tab. As you proceed through each tab of the dialog, you will be able to directly open the tabs and change any information as needed.
   
2. In the General tab, fill out the fields as appropriate for the account you are adding:
   1. The name (usually the actual first and last name).
   2. The username that will be used to log in to License Statistics. This username will also be used to identify the "logged in" account (shown in the upper right corner of the application window).
   3. Optionally, an email address for the account.
      
   4. Assign either the "Administrator" or "User" role to the account.
      The "Administrator" role has the ability to create new accounts
   Under the General tab:
   1. Complete the user and password information. 
   2. If desired, give the user a different name that will display as the logged in user name. (For example, the admin user displays as "Administrator" in the "Logged in as:" area in the upper right of the page.)
   3. Assign either Administrator or User role to the user. License Statistics Administrators have the ability to create new users, edit license server information, and remove license servers from the list of monitored servers. License Statistics Users may only view
      The "User" role only allows viewing the usage information and do does not have include any administrative or editing privileges.
      
   4. If you have enabled LDAP, you can check the "Authenticate through using LDAP" option to authenticate the user name username using LDAP. If you use LDAP authentication, you do not enter the password for the useraccount. (Also see the notes below regarding LDAP.)
   5. Enter the password for the account, and then re-enter the password to confirm it.
3. Click Next when you have completed all required fields. The Permissions tab will open.
   
4. Under the Permissions tab, select whether the user account will be allowed to control the visibility of license servers and features using Preferences. This setting affects only the useraccount's own visibility settings and will not affect other usersaccounts. If you do not allow the user account to control license server/feature visibility, he or she can still view the visibility settings in Preferences, but cannot change them.the account won't be able to access visibility settings.
5. Click Next. The License Server Visibility tab will open. 
   This tab shows lists of Visible License Servers and Hidden License Servers. 
6. Specify which license servers the account Under the Visible License Servers and Visible Features tabs, specify which license servers and features the user will be allowed to see by selecting the license servers and then clicking the Hide/Show buttons to move items between the two lists.
7. Click Next. The Feature Visibility tab will open. 
8. Select a license server from the Select License Server drop-down to see the visible and hidden features for that license server.
9. Specify which features the account will be allowed to see by selecting the features and then clicking the Hide/Show buttons as applicableto move items between the two lists.
   

Notes on LDAP

• If you enable LDAP and then subsequently disable LDAP, the user account logins will fail.
• If you uncheck the Authenticate through LDAP option, the user disable LDAP authentication on the LDAP page, the "Authenticate using LDAP" option will be disabled on the Accounts page. If the "Authenticate using LDAP" option is disabled, the credentials will be taken from the License Statistics database or you may enter the credentials in the Account form.
  
• The administrator login that is initially created by License Statistics (username: admin) cannot use LDAP authentication.
• For more information on using LDAP for user account authentication, see Connecting to an LDAP server and Automating user account creation using LDAP.

Editing

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an account

To edit a useran account's details:

1. Click the Edit icon in the Actions Action column for that useraccount. 
   The Edit Account dialog opens. This dialog has the same tabs and content as the one used to create the account, with non-editable fields grayed out. 
   
2. Edit the accountIn the Edit User dialog, edit the user's details as needed in the same manner as for creating an account (see above), and click Submit Save or Save and Close to make the changes.
   

Note: If the Authenticate through LDAP option was checked and you uncheck it, the user credentials will be taken from the License Statistics database.
For more information on using LDAP for user authentication, see Connecting to an LDAP server and Automating user account creation using LDAP.

Deleting a user

Deleting an account

To delete an accountTo delete a user, click the Delete icon in the Actions column for that useraccount. Confirm the deletion in the dialog that pops up.

Enabling/disabling authentication

User authentication Authentication is enabled by default and may be toggled on and off using the "Enable authentication" checkbox in the Authentication Settings area at the top of the User Management Accounts page. 

When authentication is toggled onenabled, users must accounts must log in to access License Statistics. If authentication is toggled offdisabled, users everybody can access License Statistics without logging in. You might decide to turn off authentication if, for example, you provide your own method of security by allowing access to License Statistics only through your intranet.

After toggling authentication on/off, you must click Save to accept the change. If you have toggled If authentication is currently disabled, after toggling authentication on, you are will be returned to the Login page, where you must log in using a valid username/password in order to access License Statistics.

Use the "Session length" slider to set the number of days that the session will last after the account logs in. The session length defaults to 1 day and has a maximum of 365 days.
The session length you set is saved automatically.

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