American Dynamics Intellex Policy Manager, User Manual

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Managing Intellex Advanced Security through Security Settings
10 Intellex® Policy Manager
At startup, each Intellex (instrument) notifies Policy Manager that it is available for use. If the
server does not recognize the instrument, it rejects the call. If so, the Intellex unit
performs an
initial registration with the server. If the registration succeeds, Policy Manager adds the Intellex
unit to its internal database. In addition, the instrument is added to the All Secured Instruments
container and to the Unassigned Instruments zone. At the end of the registration process, the
security settings for the default site instrument are applied to the new instrument. If the instrument
has been successfully registered with PM, a notification message is sent to all administration
consoles currently active, and an entry is written to the PM event log.
Note
If the list of users and groups is only partially visible, position the mouse over the list for one item,
and a help window appears displaying the entire contents of that list.
Instrument Menu
Select Action from the main menu, or right-click on a specific Intellex in the tree to display the instrument
menu, as presented below.
Adding an Instrument
When the administrator installs Intellex units on the domain and configures them for advanced
security, they automatically register themselves with the Policy Manager site based on the
information the administrator provides. Intellex units cannot be added manually.
Action Description
Select an underlined item
in the property page. Brings up the security editor to edit the specific securable object.
Click in the +/- icon Expands / collapses the list of properties.
Instrument supports the following actions
Propagate
Settings… Applies security properties from one Intellex to one or more other Intellex units.
Selecting this item displays the Propagate Settings dialog box for assigning
Intellex units.
Set
Description… Changes the description of an existing zone.
Selecting this item displays the Set Description dialog box for defining the
description of a zone.
Assign to
Zone… Adds an Intellex to an Intellex Group. This option is available only for real
instruments, not for Default instruments.
Selecting this item displays the Assign Instrument dialog box.
Cut Makes the paste action accessible. This action is available only for real
Instruments.
Selecting this item grays out the instrument icon and makes it available for
pasting into an Instrument Zone.
Delete Deletes this instrument.
The Delete item is available only if an instrument is currently listed as
unavailable. Deleting an instrument removes it from Policy Manager’s list of
registered instruments.