Database Configuration Settings in Administrator

Enterprise Users will be able to view and interact with pages. Performance Managers/Modellers can edit pages and objects and Model Administrators have full permissions.

You will still need to check your personal permissions to access this area with your site Administrator.

Database Configuration Settings

Caution:

The configuration settings affect ALL users of the application. Setting the Database Name or Server Name to incorrect values will prevent the application from connecting to the user database. This will prevent people (including yourself) from using Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Administrator and the Web Application. Fixing this problem involves editing the registry or plus.config file on the Web Server should only be attempted by qualified technical support personnel.

The options are described below.

General

Web Site URL

The URL to the virtual directory that has been created on the web server for accessing the application. This value will be the same as the one used in the login screen.

This setting cannot be changed using the User / Model Database Configuration dialogue.
If you need to use Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Administrator to work with a different server installation of an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Application, log out from Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Administrator and log in again using the other installations' Web Site URL.

Publish Path

The default path to the folder where jobs that publish Briefing Books output the published data. When you create jobs that publish Briefing Books, you can specify a different location than the default if you wish.

The Publish Path can be defined as a UNC name to a shared folder or as a local path. UNC names are usually formatted as:

• \\ServerName\ShareName\PathName
Where PathName is a path to a folder within the share

Local path names are generally formatted as:
• DriveLetter:\PathName

If you specify a local path name then it must refer to a path on the Web Server.

When an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Application is installed on the Web Server, a user name and password will have been specified by the person that installed the software. The user that was specified must have permission to create and delete folders and files within the folder identified by the Publish Path. If Publish Path is not defined, then job steps that publish Briefing Books must define a path other than the default.

Disable HTML 'Mailto:' Links

If you set this option, then when people use the Web application, all email links are disabled. This means that when email addresses are displayed clicking on the address will not attempt to automatically start up your email client software. This option is useful if people use an email client that does not fully support the 'MAILTO' protocol.

Database: Server Name

The server's name and, if appropriate, the instance name on which the user and model administration database is located. The application must know the location of a valid model and user database in order to function. The value is set during the initial installation and setup of the application. Consult the Installation manual for details.

Setting this option to an invalid value will make it impossible to use the web application or Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Administrator. This option should not need to be changed after initial installation.

Database Name

The name of the user and model administration database that is being used by the installation that is referenced by the Web Site URL. The application must have a valid model and user database in order to function. Their values is set when and the database is created during the initial installation and setup. Consult the Installation manual for details.

Notifications: SMTP Server

The name of the SMTP Server the application uses to send email notifications. The server must be configured to run an SMTP Server that allows email relaying from the Web Server. Please consult your SMTP Server documentation for details on how to achieve this. For details of the SMTP Server included with the Windows Operating System look in the Windows help system.

Change this setting if you want email notifications to work with a different SMTP Server.

Notifications: Email Address

The email address to be used by the Email Notification system. When the email notification system generates emails, it uses this email address in its From: entry. Some SMTP email servers insist that this must be defined as a valid email address on the server whereas others will allow you to specify a fictional address. Check with your email server administrators if you need additional information. If you use a real email address here, consider that users who receive email alert notifications may send replies, in which case the inbox will need examining and tidying from time to time.

Reporting: Report Manager URL

The URL specifies the location of the SQL Server 2005 reporting services website. Check with your SQL Server 2005 administrator if you need to know the correct value to use.

Authentication

Use Ideagen Healthcare Guardian™ Authentication Only

If this option is set, then whenever a user attempts to connect to the web application they will be prompted to enter a valid Ideagen Healthcare Guardian application username and password.

Use Windows Integrated Authentication Only
If this option is set, then whenever a user attempts to connect to the web application an attempt is made to connect them using their currently logged-on Windows use name credentials.

In order for this to work, their Windows username and the domain name must have been mapped onto their Ideagen Healthcare Guardian application username and the user must be logged on to the Windows network via one of the domain names entered in the Domains text box.

If the windows user is not logged on to one of the domains listed in the Domains text box, or if their logged-on Windows domain and username do not precisely match one that has been mapped on to an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Application user, then the user will not be permitted to log on.

This option should only be used if:
• All users log on to one of the domains listed in the Domains text box
• You intend to map all users to appropriate Windows domain and user names
• Internet Explorer on each users machine is configured in such a way that user credentials are passed to the Web server. Typically this will only be the case if users access the Web application within a local Intranet

Use Windows Integrated Authentication with Ideagen Healthcare Guardian™ Authentication as a Fallback
If this option is set, then whenever a user attempts to connect to the web application, an attempt is made to connect them using their currently logged-on Windows use name credentials.

In order for this to work, the Windows domain and user name must be mapped onto an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Application user name and the user must be logged on to the Windows network. If the windows user is not logged on Windows domain and user name is not mapped onto an Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Application user, then the user will be prompted to supply a valid Ideagen Healthcare Guardian Application user name and password.

Passwords

The password-related settings allow you to control how passwords are managed within the application.

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• Force new users to change their password at first login

This only affects users that are created when the option is enabled. These users will need to know their initially assigned password before they are permitted to change it.
• New user's default password
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This defines the default password that should be used when creating a new user on the system.

If you have never specified this then the default password is: password

The following settings allow you to define complexity or strength rules that should be applied whenever users change their passwords. The rules do not apply to existing passwords nor affect the Default password you can specify for new users.