Configuring Administrator Groups - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Field Description
Access The access level of the administrator account:
level
Read-write: allows all configuration to be
viewed and changed. This provides the same
rights as the default admin account.
Read-only: allows status and configuration
information to be viewed only and not changed.
Some pages, such as the
blocked to read-only accounts.
Auditor: allows access only to the
Configuration
Overview page.
Default: Read-write
Password The password that this administrator will use to
log in to the VCS.
Web Determines whether this account is allowed to
access log in to the system using the web interface.
Default: Yes
API access Determines whether this account is allowed to
access the system's status and configuration
using the Application Programming Interface
(API).
Default: Yes
State Indicates if the account is enabled or disabled.
Access will be denied to disabled accounts.

Configuring administrator groups

The Administrator groups
administrator groups that have been configured on the VCS, and lets you add, edit and delete groups.
Administrator groups only apply if
When an administrator logs in to the VCS web interface, their credentials are authenticated against the
remote directory service and they are assigned the access rights associated with the group to which the
administrator belongs. If the administrator account belongs to more than one group, the highest level
permission is assigned.
The configurable options are:
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X7.2)
Upgrade page, are
Event Log,
Log, Network Log and the
page (Maintenance > Login accounts > Administrator
remote administrator authentication
Usage tips
The access permissions of the currently logged
in user are shown in the system information bar
at the bottom of each web page.
The access level of the default admin account
cannot be changed from Read-write.
All passwords on the VCS are encrypted, so you
only see placeholder characters here.
When entering passwords, the bar next to the
Password field changes color to indicate the
complexity of the password. You can configure
the complexity requirements for local
administrator passwords on the
security page (Maintenance > Login accounts >
Password security).
You cannot set blank passwords.
This controls access to the XML and REST APIs
by systems such as TMS.
is enabled.
Maintenance
Password
groups) lists all the
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