Control Exclusions

Each card has a number of items that can be controlled. CommandCenter provides a way to protect the control of these items depending on the authority of the user, these exclusions can be programmed by the administrator and any user group that has been granted access to the engineering menu items. The control exclusions are currently held locally in the CommandCenter database.

CommandCenter allows the control exclusions to be configured for a particular card type which sets the default conditions for the card (using the Default tab), additionally control exclusions can be configured for a group of cards or individual cards using the Specific tab. When opening up this dialog a list of the different Synapse card types that are in the current system view will be gathered and shown in the upper window.

When one or more card types are selected the control objects for these cards are displayed in the lower window along with the configured user groups that have been defined for the system (except the administrator which can always control all aspects of the system).

To create a control exclusion, select Control Exclusions and then the type (Synapse, SNMP devices or Generic Device) from the Configuration menu.
Click Edit which enables one or more of the check boxes to be enabled and thus excluding users assigned to this user group from being able to control this control object in this type of card.
After changing one or more control items for a card click Apply to change the database value(s). If the apply button is not pressed then no user changes will be made.