Create Login Dialog

The Create Login dialog allows you to set up login and profile details for a new user.

User Definition Tab

Authentication

Choose one of the following options in the drop-down list:

UserName Authentication
Syniti DR will manage the user ID and password information supplied in the fields below.

NOTE: If you set up a user ID with UserName Authentication, you will not be able to use Syniti DR until the certificate is correctly installed. Generate and install the certificate before setting up authentication.

Windows Authentication
Syniti DR uses your Microsoft Windows login and ID to control access to the Management Center.

Syniti DR Login

Active only when UserName Authentication has been selected. Enter a user name.

Password

Active only when UserName Authentication has been selected. Enter a password for the user.

Confirm Password

 Re-enter the password.

Permissions Tab

User Role

Select a user role from the drop-down list. When you select a role, the appropriate permissions are also set. You can modify the permission settings for a specific user by changing the True/False values, but note that the user role changes to Custom as soon as you change a permission setting.

Administrator
Permission for all operations.

Auditor
Permission to audit and monitor replications

Custom
Permissions selected manually.

Operator
Permission to set up and change replication settings but cannot work on administrative tasks (such as change license, change user permissions)

Public
Permission to audit and monitor replications, back up metadatas and change metadata settings (such as starting/stopping traces or changing email parameters for email notification).

SecurityAdmin
Permission to manage security, Does not normally need to change replication settings or work on creating new metadata.

The table below summarizes the different permissions for each user role.

Permission

Description

Admin.

Security Admin.

Auditor

Operator

Public

Connect to Server

Permission to connect to a Syniti DR server

X

X

X

X

X

Set Metadata Default

Permission to set the default metadata. Can only be performed on local installation of Syniti DR.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Change License

Permission to change product license. Can only be performed on local installation of Syniti DR.

X

 

X

 

 

 

Add Metadata

Permission to add a metadata connection.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Remove Metadata

Permission to remove a metadata connection

X

 

 

X

 

Change Metadata Properties

Permission to edit metadata properties. Can only be performed on local installation of Syniti DR.

X

 

 

 

X

X

Load Metadata

Permission to load metadata

X

 

 

X

 

X

Browse Metadata

Permission to browse metadata tables through the SQL Command panel

X

 

X

 

 

 

Change Replication Agent Settings

Permission to change Replication Agent Settings

X

 

 

 

 

 

Change Security

Permission to change security settings. Can only be performed on local installation of Syniti DR.

X

 

X

 

 

 

Change Global Script

Permission to edit the current metadata global script.

X

 

 

 

 

 

Drop Metadata

Permission to drop the tables of the current metadata when they are removed from Syniti DR metadata.

X

 

 

 

 

 

Backup Metadata

Permission to execute a metadata backup of the current metadata.

X

 

 

 

X

X

Restore Metadata

Permission to execute a metadata restore of the current metadata from a backup file.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Custom Restore Metadata

Permission to execute a custom metadata restore of the current metadata from a backup file.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Add Connection

Permission to add a connection to the current metadata.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Change Connection

Permission to edit a connection in the current metadata.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Remove Connection

Permission to remove a connection in the current metadata

X

 

 

 

X

 

Add Replication

Permission to add a replication in the current metadata

X

 

 

 

X

 

Change Replication

Permission to edit a replication in the current metadata

X

 

 

 

X

 

Remove Replication

Permission to remove a replication in the current metadata

X

 

 

 

X

 

Add Group

Permission to add group in the current metadata

X

 

 

 

X

 

Change Group

Permission to edit a group in the current metadata.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Remove Group

Permission to remove a group in the current metadata.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Move Group Replication

Permission to move replications in and out of a group in the current metadata.

X

 

 

 

X

 

Opening the Create Login Dialog

In the Metadata Explorer:

  1. Select the server for which you want to create a user login.

  2. Click Manage Users in the toolbar or choose Manage Users from the right mouse button menu.

  3. In the User Settings dialog, check the Enable Security option.

  4. Click Add to open the Create Login dialog.