Managing User Access to Admin License Manager Information

Admin LMs can be accessed and modified by local and remote users on the network using Sentinel Admin Control Center or (programmatically) Sentinel Admin API.

NOTE

>This topic relates only to accessing information for an Admin LM, such as configuration parameters or Product data. This topic does not relate to accessing local or remote licenses with the Admin LM.

>No user access parameters exist for Integrated/External LMs. Information for these License Managers is only available to users on the local machine where the License Managers are installed.

By default, only a local end user is authorized to set access rights for the Admin LM on a given machine. Remote users are blocked from accessing any local Admin LM.

Enabling or Disabling Access for Remote Users

The parameters in the table that follows relates specifically to remote users. If these parameters are set to disable access for remote users, remote users will not be able to access Admin Control Center or Admin API for the local Admin LM. These settings override any access level granted by other parameters described below.

Remote Access Enabled/Disabled	Using Admin Control Center – "Basic Settings" Configuration Page	Using Admin API
Enable access for remote users who are using Admin Control Center	Select the Allow Remote Access to ACC check box.	Set <accremote> to 1.
Disable access for remote users who are using Admin Control Center	Clear the Allow Remote Access to ACC check box.	Set <accremote> to 0.
Enable access for remote users who are using Admin API	Select the Allow Remote Access to Admin API check box.	Set <adminremote> to 1.
Disable access for remote users who are using Admin API	Clear the Allow Remote Access to Admin API check box.	Set <adminremote> to 0.

Setting the Access Level for Authorized Users

For information in each Admin LM, an authorized end user can set one of the following levels of access for local and remote users who are employing Admin Control Center or Admin API:

Access Level	Using Admin Control Center – "Basic Settings" Configuration Page	Using Admin API
Allow all users to retrieve and modify all information.	For the Password Protection parameter, do not set a password, or change the password to null.	Do not set a password, or use <adminpassnew> to change the password to null.
Allow all users to retrieve all information. Require a password to modify any information.	>For the Password Protection parameter, select All ACC Pages. >Set a password.	> Set <passacc> to 1. >Use <adminpassnew> to set a password.
Allow all users to retrieve all information and to modify all information except for Admin LM configuration parameters. Require a password to modify Admin LM configuration parameters.	>For the Password Protection parameter, select Configuration Pages. >Set a password.	>Set <passacc> to 0. >Use <adminpassnew> to set a password.

Access Level

Using Admin Control Center –
"Basic Settings" Configuration Page

Using Admin API

Allow all users to retrieve and modify all information.

For the Password Protection parameter, do not set a password, or change the password to null.

Do not set a password, or use <adminpassnew> to change the password to null.

Allow all users to retrieve all information.

Require a password to modify any information.

>For the Password Protection parameter, select All ACC Pages.

>Set a password.

> Set <passacc> to 1.

>Use <adminpassnew> to set a password.

Allow all users to retrieve all information and to modify all information except for Admin LM configuration parameters.

Require a password to modify Admin LM configuration parameters.

>For the Password Protection parameter, select Configuration Pages.

>Set a password.

>Set <passacc> to 0.

>Use <adminpassnew> to set a password.

NOTE The access level described in the table above applies to both local and remote users. However, in practice, the access level is only relevant for remote users because any user that can access the configuration file for an Admin LM can modify access rights manually.