STA Login Sessions

Your STA administrator will provide you with a username and password for logging into STA. Once you are logged in, you have access to all STA screens and features. See “Log In to STA” for instructions.

Password Requirements

User passwords have the following format requirements:

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User Account Lockout

After five unsuccessful login attempts within a five-minute period, you will be locked out of your user account for 30 minutes. For security reasons, your account cannot be reset during the lockout period, even by the STA administrator, so you must wait the full 30-minutes before attempting to log in again.

Logging Out

When you are ready to finish a login session, it is recommended that you log out of STA rather than simply closing the browser window. Logging out releases the session memory on the STA server for other processes. If you simply close the browser window, the session memory is not freed until the defined session timeout period is exceeded, possibly impacting STA performance, especially if your session timeout period is long. See “Log Out of STA” for instructions.

Screen Navigation

You should not use your browser’s Forward and Back (or Next and Previous) buttons for navigating through the STA screens. The use of these buttons could produce unpredictable results, as the data you see may be stale or out of sync with the data on the STA server. To navigate, you should always use the methods provided by STA: the Navigation Bar and text links.

See Chapter 3, “User Interface Basics” for complete details about STA screen navigation.