Oracle9iAS Wireless Administrator's Guide Release 9.0.3 Part Number B10042_01 |
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This document describes how you can create and modify Oracle9iAS Wireless users and user groups using the User Manager. Each section of this document presents a different topic. These sections include:
The User Manager is accessible to users granted the Administrator or Helpdesk roles. This tool enables you to perform such Helpdesk functions as creating and modifying users and groups and assigning services to users and groups.
User groups help you manage service access for multiple users. You can create user groups based on such considerations as subscription level, geographic location, or interests. Each user object represents a Oracle9iAS Wireless end user.
The name for the user object must be unique within Wireless. Users have an external identifier attribute. Using this ID, Wireless associates the user with an external provisioning system account. The value of the external ID, for example, may be a telephone number or user account number with an ID to an external repository.
Wireless users can be assigned the following roles:
Table 9-1 Wireless User RolesWireless also allows anonymous users, those who do not register with Wireless but would like to try out the services as a guest. You can create an anonymous user account for each group. All unregistered users share the guest account to invoke services owned by the group. A guest user cannot personalize services.
You must assign roles to users with the User Manager rather than with other general-purpose user management tools, such as DAS. Users created using DAS or other OID tools are provisioned in Wireless only when the created user accesses the Wireless portal, device portal, or any of the PC-based tools for the first time. These provisioned users do not have the assigned roles needed to access the Wireless webtools. For example, a user must have the Designer role to access the Service Designer. If a user with no assigned roles tries to log into a Wireless webtool, then Wireless displays the following Single Sign-On error:
Your session has timed out. Please log on again.
The user can successfully log into the Wireless webtool (or other components) only after you assign the user a role. See Section 9.3.4 for information on creating a user and assigning user roles.
Before using the User Manager, you must first log in as follows:
http://hostname:7777/webtool/login.uix
After you have successfully logged into the User Manager, the tool defaults to the User tab, displaying the Users screen.
The Search User Result screen enables you to search for users and as well as create and edit user profiles, and delete users.
The Users subtab contains User Name, Display Name, and Group fields that enable you to find current Wireless users. The Search User Result's screen displays search results as follows:
Table 9-2 Elements Search User Result ScreenLabel | Definition |
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User Name |
The name of the user. |
Display Name |
The display name of the user. |
Group Name |
The group to which the user has been assigned. |
Role Name |
The role (or roles) assigned to the user. For information on user roles, see Section 9.1.1. |
To find users:
You can narrow your searches by adding the display name of the user in the Display Name field and then by clicking Go.
You can broaden your search to display all current users by entering a wildcard (* or %) in the User Name field and then by clicking Go.
You can insert wildcards in place of characters. Wildcards can replace all of the characters from the current position to the end of the string. Use the question mark (?) to replace a single character.
The user administrator can display all users belonging to a group by selecting the group name.
The View Services button enables you to view and test the services belonging to a selected user. Using this button, you can browse the services, bookmarks, folders, and alerts created by a single user.
Selecting a user and then clicking the View Services button displays the following:
Table 9-3 User InformationThe User Manager enables you to view a user's activity within a specific time frame through activity logs that display the accessed async services, alerts, and services. In addition, these activity logs tell you if Wireless dispatched services successfully.
To view an activity log:
The User Manager displays the following for async service statistics for a selected user:
Table 9-4 Async LogThe User Manager displays the following for alert statistics for a selected user:
Table 9-5 Alert Log StatisticsThe User Manager displays the following for service statistics for a selected user:
Table 9-6 Service Log StatisticsYou can view the activity log for a specific period using the From Date and To Date fields. You can set starting and ending dates either by entering them in the fields in the mm/dd/ yyyy format, or by picking them from the calendars. Click Go after you have completed entering the date range.
Note: . The default From date is midnight of the previous day. Both the From and To dates assume midnight of the selected day. |
You can print an activity log by clicking Printable Page. This printed page contains text and has no headers or footers. Use the browser's Back button to navigate from the printed page.
The Create User screen (invoked by clicking the Create button) contains a set of parameters that administrators set to create and configure new users.
Note: Most end users create their own user accounts through the self-registration in device portal access (http://hostname:7777/ptg/rm). |
The Create User screen includes the following required parameters.
Table 9-7 Parameters for the Create User ScreenIn addition to the required fields, you can supplement the user information by adding additional employee profile information, a photograph of the user, the user's home address, public group assignment, and access to Oracle Reports and Forms-based applications.
To create a user:
To edit a user's profile:
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The User Manager enables you to create user groups that organize the user community. Once created, the Content Manager assigns services appropriate to these user groups. Groups (and the users who belong to them) do not own the objects assigned to them; they view them.
Selecting the Group tab displays the Group screen, which you use to create, edit and delete Wireless user groups. You can assign these groups to users. See Section 9.3.4 for more information on assigning users to groups.
To create a new user group:
To edit a group name:
To delete a group: