Administering Users
To log in to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, a user must provide a user name and password. Users can gain access to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications by being either:
| • | A FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user, meaning that all or some information for that user, whatever its source, is stored in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications database. User of this type are listed on the Users page. |
| • | A user in a configured directory service who is not a FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user. Any user in a configured directory service domain can log in to FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. However, to perform a task in FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, a non–FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user must belong to a group that has been granted a role that can perform the task. These users do not appear in the Users page. |
LDAP
Information for a FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications user can be imported from an LDAP directory service, if the application has been configured to access a directory service, or the information is manually input into FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications. Users input manually into the application are users in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications domain. Authentication information for a user in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications domain is stored in the FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications database. FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications users imported from a directory service are users in that directory service domain. Authentication information for a user in a directory service domain is maintained in the directory service.
Users can be members of FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications groups. Groups cannot be input manually through FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, but only can be imported from a directory service. Group membership is managed entirely in the directory service.
After logging in, to perform tasks using FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications, a user must be granted one or more permissions that are defined by the application. Permissions are not assigned to users directly—permissions are grouped into roles and FlexNet Manager for Engineering Applications users or groups are assigned one or more roles.
Some user names are intended to be logins to be shared among multiple users, for example, the admin user. Shared logins do not appear in the Logged-In Users page.
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