Permissions and Administrators - Advanced

What can I do here?

Use this window to configure:

• Administrator Account Settings
• Idle Timeout for SmartConsole
• Check Point Password
• Login Restrictions for locking and unlocking administrator accounts.

Getting Here - Manage & Settings Permissions and Administrators > Advanced Or: SmartConsole for Multi-Domain Server > Multi Domain > Permissions and Administrators > Advanced

Unlocking a Locked Administrator

Administrators Working with Multiple Sessions

Administrators working with multiple sessions can open multiple new private sessions without publishing changes made in their current private session.

Use Case

Suppose you are making changes in a private session and are asked to solve some immediate problem. The task involves making a change and publishing it. You do not wish to publish or discard your current private session.

You open a new private session, make the change required resolve the issue, publish the change, then return to your previous private session.

To do this, you need to work with multiple sessions. To switch on multiple sessions, you need the Manage Sessions permission selected on your administrator profile.

To enable working in multiple sessions:

1. Open the relevant permission profile.
2. Make sure the Manage Sessions permission is selected on the Management page.
3. Open SmartConsole > Manage & Settings View > Sessions > Advanced.
4. Select Each administrator can manage multiple SmartConsole sessions at the same time.
5. Publish the change.

When working with multiple sessions, you can:

• Open and manage multiple sessions to the Security Management Server using the same administrator account
• Switch between the active session and previously saved sessions
• Publish, discard and disconnect other sessions
• Take over other sessions

The SmartConsole Session menu

After multiple sessions are enabled, the SmartConsole Session menu has these new options:

Option	Description
Edit sessions details	Lets you change the session name and description.
Create new session	In the current window Opens a new session in the current SmartConsole In a new window Opens a new session in a new SmartConsole
Recent	Shows a list of recent sessions. Selecting a session opens the session in the current SmartConsole
More	Opens the Open Session window that shows sessions that you previously created and saved. Sessions shown in this window are owned by the current user in the current domain. The Open Session > Actions menu has options to open a saved session in the current SmartConsole or open the session in a new SmartConsole.

The SmartConsole Session View

When multiple sessions are enabled, you can perform these additional actions:

Action	You can:
For sessions that you own	Discard and Disconnect Publish and Disconnect Disconnect Open an older session
For sessions owned by other administrators that have made private changes	Publish and Disconnect their changes Discard and Disconnect Disconnect Take over their changes
For sessions owned by other administrators that have not made private sessions	Disconnect Take over

Notes:

• When working in single session, you need to publish or discard your changes before taking over another session. In multiple sessions, you do not have to publish or discard your session before taking over the session of another administrator.
• In multiple sessions, an administrator connecting from another desktop to an already connected session can still take over the connected session by default.

Switching between Multiple and Single Session

If the session management settings switch from multiple SmartConsole sessions to allow only a single SmartConsole session at a time:

• Administrators can still publish, discard and open sessions that they own.
• Cannot create new sessions until they have published or discarded all their unpublished sessions with private sessions
• Cannot take over the sessions of other administrators or applications (for example sessions created with API commands in the mgmt_cli utility) until they have published or discarded all their previously saved private sessions.