Creating and Deleting Administrative Accounts and Groups

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The administrative login name must be unique.

Administrators are not allowed to connect via external authentication systems if an administrator with the same login already exists at this Dr.Web Server.

Adding Administrators

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To create an administrative account, the administrator must have the Create administrators, administrative groups permission.

To add a new administrative account

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu of the Control Center; in the window that opens, select the Administrators item in the control menu.

2.Click the icon-admin-add Create account icon in the toolbar. A window for setting up an account will open.

3.In the General section, specify the following parameters:

In the Login field, specify the administrator account login for accessing Dr.Web Security Control Center. You may use lowercase characters (a-z), uppercase characters (A-Z), digits (0-9), symbols "_" and ".".

In the Password and Confirm Password fields, set the password for accessing Dr.Web Server and Dr.Web Security Control Center.

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You cannot use non-Latin characters in the administrator's password.

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The password fields are active only for administrators using internal authentication.

The values of these fields specified in the Control Center for administrators using external authentication are irrelevant.

In the First name, Middle name, and Last name fields, specify the administrator's personal data.

Specify the Email address. Otherwise, the password reset option will be unavailable.

In the Interface language drop-down list, select the language which will be used by the administrator (web browser language or English is specified by default).

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If you select an interface language whose texts are not currently being updated, you will be prompted to enable the update for this language. To do this, follow the link to the Administration → General repository configuration → Dr.Web Server → Dr.Web Security Control Center languages section, set the flag for the necessary language and click Save. At the next repository update, the interface texts for the selected language will be updated. You can also launch the update manually in the Repository state section.

In the Date format drop-down list, select the date format which will be used by this administrator when editing settings that contain dates. The following formats are available:

European: DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS

American: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS

In the Description field, you can set an optional description of the account.

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Values of fields marked with the * character must be specified.

4.In the Groups subsection, you can specify the parental administrative group. The list contains groups to which an administrator can be assigned. A flag is set next to the group to which the new administrator will be assigned. Newly created administrators are placed in the parent group of the current administrator by default. To change the group, set the flag next to the group you need.

Each administrator may be a member of one group only.

The administrator inherits permissions from the parental group (see Administrators Permissions).

5.After you set all the necessary parameters, click Save to create the new administrative account.

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To provide the newly created administrator with the latest information about anti-virus network events, it is recommended that you configure the notification settings immediately after creating the new account by following the instructions from the Notification Configuration section. Make sure to enable the Statistic report notification to allow the administrator to create scheduled statistical reports.

Adding Administrative Groups

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To create administrative groups, the administrator must have the Create administrators, administrative groups permission.

To add a new administrative group

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu of Dr.Web Security Control Center, then select the Administrators item in the control menu of the windows that opens.

2.Click the icon-add-group Create group icon in the toolbar. A window for setting up a new group will open.

3.In the General section, specify the following parameters:

In the Group field, specify the name of the administrative group. You may use lowercase characters (a-z), uppercase characters (A-Z), digits (0-9), symbols "_" and ".".

In the Description field, you can set optional description of the group.

4.In the Groups subsection, you can specify the parental administrative group. The list contains groups which can be assigned as a parental group. A flag is set next to the group to which the new administrative group will be assigned. Newly created groups are placed in the parent group of the current administrator by default. To change the group, set the flag next to the group you need.

Only one parent group may be assigned.

The administrative group inherits permissions from its parental group (see Administrators Permissions).

5.After you set all the necessary parameters, click Save to create the new administrative group.

Deleting Administrators and Administrative Groups

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To delete administrative accounts and administrative groups, the administrator must have the Create administrators, administrative groups and Edit properties and configuration of administrative groups permissions correspondingly.

To delete an administrative account or group

1.Select the Administration item in the main menu of Dr.Web Security Control Center and then the Administrators item in the control menu.

2.In the hierarchical list of administrators, select the administrative account or administrative group you want to delete.

3.Click the icon-general-remove-object Delete selected objects icon in the toolbar.

If the administrator to be deleted is the author of tasks from the Dr.Web Server Task Scheduler, assign their tasks to another administrator in the right part of the window before you delete the account. Then click Delete.

4.Confirm the action.