Version 9.6
 —  Logging On and Using the CentraSite UIs and APIs  —

Logging On and Off


Logging on and off in CentraSite Control

Your first logon after Installation

When you log on for the first time after the product installation, you must use the user ID "Administrator" and password "manage". This logs you on as the internal user "Administrator", and this user has the "CentraSite Administrator" role. After you have logged on with this user ID and password, you can perform all administration tasks, such as creating other users and assigning roles to them.

You can alternatively log on as a guest user (see instructions in the following section), but this user cannot perform any administration tasks.

Logging on as a registered user or as a guest user

You can log on as the internal user "Administrator", or as a user who has been registered as a CentraSite user by another user with the appropriate permissions. Alternatively, you can log on as a guest user without being registered as a user.

When you log on as a registered user, you supply a user ID and password. CentraSite Control validates the user ID and password against your machine's user repository (for example, operating system or LDAP). See the section About Users in the document Users, Groups, Roles and Permissions for information about defining CentraSite users and associating them with users in the user repository.

When you access CentraSite Control as a guest, you are permitted to see only those assets whose view permissions include the "Everyone" group.

Start of instruction setTo log on to CentraSite Control as a registered user

  1. In the CentraSite Control logon screen, enter your user ID and your password.

  2. Click Log On.

Start of instruction setTo log on to CentraSite Control as a guest user

  1. In the CentraSite Control logon screen, click Browse as Guest, without supplying a user name or password.

Logging off from CentraSite Control

To log off from CentraSite Control, choose the Log Off link at the top of the screen.

If you do not log off when you are finished using CentraSite Control (that is, if you simply close the browser window with out logging out), your session will automatically time out after 60 minutes of inactivity.

Note:
We recommend you to explicitly log off when you have finished using the user interface. Logging off ensures that the cookies from your session are cleared from your machine. If you close your browser without logging off, these cookies might not be cleared (depending on which browser you use) and could be reused if you were to log on to CentraSite Control before your earlier session's timeout period had elapsed.

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