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32 EPICenter Concepts and Solutions Guide
Getting Started with EPICenter
new feature in the Main window of the EPICenter product. If a device was selected in the previous
feature, that same device will be preselected in the newly-opened feature.
For example, if you select a device in the Inventory Manager, and then run the Alarm Manager, the
Alarm Log browser will automatically filter the alarm log to display just the alarms for the device that
was selected in the Inventory Manager. If you select a specific alarm entry in the Alarm Log Browser
and then run the Topology applet, EPICenter will display the map or sub-map that shows the device on
which the selected alarm occurred, with the device selected on the map. (If the device appears on more
than one map, EPICenter will let you select which instance you want to see).
Running Features in Separate Windows
In addition to running EPICenter applets from the Navigation Toolbar, certain applets (the Alarm Log
Browser, Inventory Manager, Interactive Telnet, VLAN Manager, and Real-Time Statistics) can be run in
a separate window to show information about a selected device without leaving the feature you are
currently using. This allows you to view status or configuration information about a selected device
without losing your place in the feature you are currently working in. The functionality of the applet
when it runs in a separate window is somewhat more limited than the features available when the
feature is run in its normal mode.
EPICenter User Roles
EPICenter provides four pre-defined roles for levels of user access to the features of the product:
• The Administrator role provided full read/write access to all features of the product, including to
the Administration applet where the features of EPICenter itself can be configured, and where users
can be added or deleted, and their roles modified.
• The Manager role provided full read/write access to all features of the product except for the
Administration applet.
• The Monitor role provided read-only access to the features of the product—a user with a Monitor
role could view status and configuration information, but could not do any configuration tasks.
• The Disabled role provides no access to any features of the product.
Every user created in EPICenter is assigned a role which determines the access that user has to the
features of the product.
In EPICenter 5.0, the administrator can also create additional roles with any combination of read-only,
read-write, or disabled access to different EPICenter product features. In addition, for the Administrator,
Manager, and Monitor roles, access can be disabled on a feature-by-feature basis (except that access to
the Administration feature is never disabled for the Administrator role).
A user’s role determines which features the user can access (if access is disabled, the button for the
feature removed from the Navigation Toolbar, with the exception of Telnet, which is greyed out) and
what the user can do within the applets to which he has access. A user who’s role provides read-write
access to a feature can perform all the functions within that feature -- both those that show status
information, and those that perform configuration operations, for example. A user who’s role provides
read-only access will be able to view status and configuration information, but will not be able to
perform configuration operations or store information in the EPICenter database.
Roles also used to determine whether a particular user can execute Telnet macros from the Tools menu
or from right-click pop-up menu. When a telnet macro is created, one of its attributes is the selection of