Home Section

• When the user signs in, he will be redirected to the “Home” interface, also when he clicks on “Home” button in the side bar. This interface is composed of 5 sections that appear if the actual user has a role that have their permission.

2.2.1 Dashboard

• This interface contains statistical and metric diagrams of general information about the company such as:

  • Total seats: Which informs about the available seats and registered seats compared to the total.

  • Registered users: Which informs about the activated and inactivated users compared to the total registered users.

  • Total passwords: Which informs about the Strong and weak passwords compared to the total. The password is considered weak if its length is less than the “PASSWORD LENGTH” parameter.

  • Password details: Which informs about the number of preloaded passwords, preloaded systems, passwords from user application compared to the total number of passwords.

  • Users activity: Which informs about the last activity of users compared to the total activated users.

  • Passwords distribution: Which informs about the distributed and not distributed passwords created in the “Access kit” section.

  • Credit cards details: Which informs about the types of credit cards compared to the total number, it can be “Visa”, “MasterCard”, “Amex”, “Diners”, “Discover”, “Jcb”, “Unknown”.

  

2.2.2 General settings

• The “General settings” section contains a list of parameters:

  

  2.2.2.1 Password length

  • Which is the default number of characters of the field password in preloaded passwords, preloaded systems, passwords from user application, this length can at least 14 characters and maximum 60.
  

  2.2.2.2 Storage levels

  • Wherein the user can set the allowed levels where the users of his company can store their passwords.
  

  2.2.2.3 Change passwords frequency

  • This feature is like a reminder which the user can activate ( or deactivate ) and enter a number of days after them a flag containing the text “change” will be displayed near to the password in the MyCena application interfaces.
  

  2.2.2.4 Active directory sync timer

  • This feature is like a schedule which the user can activate ( or deactivate ) and enter a number of days after them users from active directory will be imported to the list of users, this action can be done according to filters.
  

  2.2.2.5 Pin length

  • This feature, if activated, allows the manager of the console to set a number of characters as the length of the PIN code of the application users, if not the default PIN length will bet six-digits.
  

  2.2.2.6 Pin verify

  • The manager of the console can choose the number of minutes of inactivity in the application of users of this company, if the period ( two or five minutes ) has expired, the “Enter your PIN” interface will be displayed.
  

  2.2.2.7 Change Pin frequency

  • This feature allows the manager of the console to set a number of days as a period for the users of the application to update their pin code.
  

  2.2.2.8 Change Lock pattern frequency

  • This feature allows the manager of the console to set a number of days as a period for the users of the application to update their lock pattern.
  

  2.2.2.9 Change passphrase frequency

  • This feature allows the manager of the console to set a number of days as a period for the users of the application to update their passphrase.
  

  2.2.2.10 Copy duration

  • This parameter is the number of seconds of the copy duration of fields in the application it can be 15, 30 or 60 seconds.
  

  2.2.2.11 Automatic update application

  • This feature allows the manager of the console either to activate the automatic update so that when a new version of the application is released, it will be downloaded automatically for the users when they log in MDC application, or to deactivate the automatic update so that the manager can download either the “Windows”, “Linux”, “Mac” version of the new version and distribute it with his own way.
  

  2.2.2.12 Device restriction

  • In this parameter the console manager can activate or deactivate a restriction to added devices in the device restriction section. If activated, the console manager can choose if the device restriction will be applied to all company users or he will exclude the Owner and the SuperAdmins.
  

2.2.3 Local update servers

This feature works only if the ” Manage Update Server ” Add-on is enabled for the current company.

• To prevent a high usage of your internet connection bandwidth, the console manager can use local update servers to update the MDC application.

• This feature allows new versions to be distributed over an internal network (LAN), via a “script logon” or similar process, optimizing internet resources and update time.

• Local update server is an application that the console manager can download. For windows “[https://update.deskcenter.mycena.co/download-local-server/windows]”, for linux “[https://update.deskcenter.mycena.co/download-local-server/linux]”, for mac “[https://update.deskcenter.mycena.co/download-local-server/osx]”.

• On the local update servers section, there are more information and detailed documentation.

  

• In the “List Servers” section, the console manager can add new server:

  • The console manager clicks on “Add a server” button.
  • “Add new server” pop-up will be displayed.
  • The console manager fills the “Host” field which is required, he can enter a private ip address in this field.
  • The console manager fills the “Port” field with a not reserved TCP port ( > 1024) on which the local update server application will work.
  • The console manager can set if this server is activated or not.
  • The console manager clicks on “Save” button.

• In the “List Servers” section, the console manager can update a server after clicking on the update button in the actions column.

• In the “List Servers” section, the console manager can delete a server after clicking on the delete button in the actions column.

• In the “List Servers” section, the console manager can update server “Activated” field by clicking on the toggle button and submitting his password in the “Activated” column.

• In the “List Servers” section, the console manager can filter in the table by searching in the title of the column.

• In the “List Servers” section, the console manager can change number of lines per page.

2.2.4 IP restriction

This feature works only if the ” Manage IP restrictions ” Add-on is enabled for the current company.

• In this section, hosts are identified by their ip addresses. the console manager can add the ip addresses that he wants his company users connect from ( to the application or to the console ).

  

• Either in the “List of authorized ip (Console)” table or “List of authorized ip (Application)”, the console manager can add a new ip:

  • The console manager clicks on “Add ip” button.
  • “Add new ip” pop-up will be displayed
  • The console manager fills the “Label” field which is required.
  • The console manager fills the “Host” field which is required and which contains the ip address to work on.
  • The console manager can set if this address is activated or not.
  • The console manager clicks on “Save” button.

• In the “List of authorized ip” section, the console manager can update an ip after clicking on the update button in the actions column.

• In the “List of authorized ip” section, the console manager can delete an ip after clicking on the delete button in the actions column.

• In the “List of authorized ip” section, the console manager can update ip “Activated” field by clicking on the toggle button and submitting his password in the “Activated” column.

• In the “List of authorized ip” section, the console manager can filter in the table by searching in the title of the column.

• In the “List of authorized ip” section, the console manager can change number of lines per page.

2.2.5 Device restriction

• In this section, hosts are identified by their UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) and their Serial numbers, the console manager can add the devices that he wants his company users to connect from.

• A UUID (Universally Unique Identifier) and Serial number are unique identifiers for a specific computer or device. The method to obtain the UUID and Serial number of a computer varies depending on the operating system.

• There are more detailed information in the section “Documentation” of the interface.

  

• In the “List of device restriction” section, the user can add new device:

  • The console manager clicks on “Add a device” button.
  • “Add new device” pop-up will be displayed.
  • The console manager fills the “UUID” field which is required.
  • The console manager can fill the “Serial number” field which is optional.
  • The console manager fills the “Device name” field which is required.
  • The console manager can set if this device is activated or not.
  • The console manager clicks on “Save” button.

• In the “Upload device restriction list” section, the user can import a list of devices:

  • The console manager clicks on “Download template”
  • The console manager fills the “UUID” field which is required.
  • The console manager can fill the “Serial number” field which is optional.
  • The console manager fills the “Device name” field which is required.
  • The console manager can set if this device is activated or not by typing “y” or “n”.
  • The console manager clicks on “Upload template”.

• In the “List of device restriction ip” section, the console manager can update a device after clicking on the update button in the actions column.

• In the “List of device restriction” section, the console manager can delete a device after clicking on the delete button in the actions column.

• In the “List of device restriction” section, the console manager can update device “Activated” field by clicking on the toggle button and submitting his password in the “Activated” column.

• In the “List of device restriction” section, the console manager can filter in the table by searching in the title of the column.

• In the “List of device restriction” section, the console manager can change number of lines per page.