If you have installed ARIS Architect or ARIS UML Designer with the local database system LOCAL, there is no connection to an ARIS Design Server and ARIS Administration.
Please note the following security advice:
Ensure that only authorized users work with the server LOCAL.
If you do not have a license for ARIS Architect and usually work with a central ARIS Server instead, you must log in to this server once after installation to obtain a license for the server LOCAL.
If an unauthorized user restores a backup file that was not encrypted on his LOCAL server, he has full access to the entire content of the database.
You cannot create users or change the password of the user system.
If you restore backup copies of databases from ARIS servers to the database system installed locally on the server, the user system sees the entire content of the database. You may therefore see information that you are not meant to see.
Therefore back up databases from ARIS Design Server as encrypted backup files to prevent unauthorized access.
Remember the passwords for encrypted databases so that you can restore the databases.
Warning
If an unauthorized user restores a backup file that was not encrypted on his LOCAL server, he has full access to the entire content of the database.
You can change the entire content of the database.
If you backup edited databases from the server LOCAL and restore them on ARIS Design Server, other users may not always see the content that has been moved if the group structure has been changed during editing and access privileges have not yet been updated.