Managing Your Account

>Profile Management

>Password Management

>Active Session Management

 

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The My Account page enables you to manage your profile details, change your login password, and manage active login sessions in Sentinel EMS. This page consists of the following sections:

>Profile—Helps you view and update your basic account details, such as name and email address.

>Password—Helps you update your login password.

>Active Sessions—Helps you view active login sessions. You can also log out of other active sessions across browsers and devices.

To access your account settings:

1.Log in to the Sentinel EMS Vendor Portal.

2.Click the profile icon at the top right of the browser, and then select My Account. The My Account page opens.

My profile

Profile Management

NOTE   If you authenticate using your organization's identity provider, you cannot edit your profile details in Sentinel EMS. Your profile information is managed by your identity provider.

The Profile tab displays basic identification and contact details for the logged-in user account.

The following details are available:

Field Description Required/Optional Valid Values
User ID

The unique identifier used to log in to your account.

Required

Read-Only

Email Address

The email address associated with your account, used for receiving email notifications and password reset links.

We recommend that you update the email address for your Sentinel EMS account the first time you log in. This ensures that you:

>Receive email notifications, such as entitlement certificates and license certificates, at your preferred email address.

>Can use the Forgot Password? feature to get the reset link at your preferred email address.

Required

>A valid email address

>Maximum: 100 characters

>Cannot contain: spaces and \ () [] : ; “ <>

>Cannot start with a '.'

>Cannot contain double ..

>Cannot contain double @@

Name

The display name of the user in the portal.

Optional

>1 to 100 characters

>Alphanumeric

To update your profile details:

1.On the My Account page, open the Profile tab.

2.Modify your Email Address or Name as required.

3.Click Save. The updated display name will be visible in the upper-right corner of the page.

Password Management

NOTE   If you authenticate using your organization's identity provider, you cannot view the Password tab in Sentinel EMS. Your password is managed by your identity provider.

The Password tab enables you to change your login password.

This tab displays your Current Password represented by a row of asterisks. The number of asterisks shown in the field is a placeholder and does not reflect the actual character length of your password.

To change your password:

1.On the My Account page, open the Password tab.

2.Click the Edit button Edit icon next to the Current Password field. The Change Password dialog box opens.

3.In the Change Password dialog box, fill in the fields described in the table below:

Field Description Required/Optional Valid Values
Email Address

Displays the email address associated with your account.

Required

Read-only

Old Password

The current password for your account.

Required

The existing password associated with your account.

New Password

The new password for your account.

Required

>8 to 30 characters

>At least one lowercase character (a-z)

>At least one uppercase character (A-Z)

>At least one number (0-9) or special character (! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = , .)

Confirm Password

Re-enter your new password to confirm it.

Required

Must match the value in the New Password field.

4.(Optional) Select the Log Out All Sessions, Log in to resume checkbox to terminate all active sessions, including the current session associated with your account.

5.Click Change Password.

>If the Log Out All Sessions, Log in to resume checkbox is selected: All sessions, including your current session, are terminated and you must log in again using the new password to resume using the portal.

>If the Log Out All Sessions, Log in to resume checkbox is cleared: Only your current session is terminated immediately and you must log in again using the new password to resume using the portal.

Active Session Management

Sentinel EMS allows multiple concurrent active sessions for the same user account across different browsers and devices. The Active Sessions tab lists all active sessions and provides options to manage and terminate them.

The active sessions grid displays the following details for each login session:

Column Description
Application

The specific Sentinel EMS portal or application used for the session (for example, Vendor Portal, Customer Portal, or an external application).

IP Address

The IP address of the device from which the session was established.

Operating System

The operating system of the device used for the session.

Browser

The web browser used for the session.

Login Date/Time

The exact date and time the session was started.

Last Session Update

The time of the most recent user activity within the session.

Actions

Actions that can be performed on an active session:

Log Out

Terminates the selected session. This option is not available for your current session.

To view and terminate active sessions:

1.On the My Account page, select the Active Sessions tab to view all active sessions associated with your account.

2.To terminate sessions, perform one of the following actions:

>Log out of a single session: Click the Log Out button in the Actions column next to the session you want to terminate.

>Log out of all active sessions, including current session: Click the Log Out All Sessions button above the grid.

3.In the Confirm Logout dialog box, click Log Out to terminate the selected session or sessions.

NOTE   Session Termination Effects:

>Delayed Logout: After a session is terminated, some actions may remain authorized and functional on that device or browser until the system's temporary security token expires (typically up to 55 minutes).

>Immediate Logout: If a user whose session has been terminated navigates to the Active Sessions tab, Sentinel EMS verifies the session state directly and logs the user out immediately.