Data Source

Data Source is where you set where you want your data to come from.

The setting can look different depending on the Data Source chosen.

None

None, UMS will get no data at all. This can be useful if you want to prepare a template, but not ready to deploy it yet.

Active Directory Employee

This setting will add another column beneath the Data Source setting, where you need to have a Admin Server setting ready.

These are the things previously mentioned Admin Server needs to work:

• A description, this should be something that describes what you intend to do with it, calling it "AD - Employee" would probably be the best name if you only have 1 employee template utilizing Active Directory as a Data Source
• You need to set what Domain it needs to contact to find these users
• Then a username and password in that or at least with access to that domain to read the user profiles it needs to work.

You can press "Test Connection" to see if you configured it properly.

Now that you have made the Admin Server you need to go back to the Data Source settings to finish configuring it.

After picking the Admin Server that you just created you will meet a 'Get User setting' screen. Here you add a description and Source OU, note that you can have multiple 'Get User settings' using the same Admin Server.

Active Directory Student

The configuration of this data source is exactly the same as Active Directory Employee, but UMS treats the data differently.

Fields in the database such as UserType will reflect the setting you choose for the template.

Easy Data Sources

The various Easy data sources requires an Easy Admin Server setting. This will require an IP, SID, Username, Password and Institution number.

Once you have created the Admin Server setting you go to the template and select it. Here it will ask you to configure you Get User setting for the template.

The GetUser setting will allow you to set how many days the users 'Keep Alive' will be for the template. Keep alive is how many days the user will remain active past the resignation or general end date for the user.

It will also allow you to set how many days a user needs to be created before their start date, note this only works if there's data that states the user starts on a specific date.

Finally it will allow you to set how many days back the user will appear in different database tables after their end date has expired.

Guest Users

User settings

This sections controls how the users loginnames are generated. In this example, subsequent users are created as GUEST_16, GUEST_17, GUEST_18 and so on.

Max age indicates the max allowed duration for a guest user created by UMS to stay active.

Group settings

Enter a prefix for the groups created by multiple users module. Choose a prefix that will insure that groups created by multiple user module not will interfere with existing groups in Active directory.

Web settings

This sections controls which users can create multiple users on this template. Also its possible to indicate which mergelist template are default for users created with this template.

For more information visit the Guest Users specific wiki entry:

Guest Users