Creating Administrator Accounts

The controller supports the creation of additional administrator accounts. This allows you to share or delegate management and monitoring functions with other members of your organization. You can also modify the status of the administrator account by locking or unlocking it.
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  1. Go to Administration > Administration > Admins and Roles.
  2. Select the Administrators tab.
  3. Click Create.
    The Create Administrator Account page appears.

    Creating an Administrator Account

  4. Configure the following:
    1. Account Name: Type the name that this administrator will use to log on to the controller.
    2. Real Name: Type the actual name (for example, John Smith) of the administrator.
    3. Password: Type the password that this administrator will use (in conjunction with the Account Name) to log on to the controller.
    4. Confirm Password: Type the same password as above.
    5. Phone: Type the phone number of this administrator.
    6. Email: Type the email address of this administrator.
    7. Job Title: Type the job title or position of this administrator in your organization.
    8. Click OK.
    Note:
    3.6.1 update
    You can also edit, delete, or unlock the admin account by selecting the options Configure, Delete or Unlock, from the Administrator tab.
    Note: Administrator users mapped to different domain other than system domain have to log in using accountname@domain as the User.

In this section:

  1. Unlocking an Administrator Account
    When multiple user access authentications fail, the administrator account is locked. A super administrator can however unlock the administrator account.
Parent topic: Managing Administrator and Roles