You can customize different elements of Multi-Grid Manager to better suit the needs of your organization and to facilitate the completion of tasks.

Creating a Login Banner

Multi-Grid Manager displays a statement at the top of the Login screen (a banner message). You can change this statement to better suit your organization. For example, you can post security warnings or provide user-friendly information. A login banner message can be up to 3000 characters long.
To create a login banner:

1. From the Master Grid tab, select either Members or Licenses.
2. From the Toolbar, click Master Grid Properties -> Edit.
3. In the Master Grid Properties editor, select the Security tab, and then select Enable Login Banner. In the text field, enter the text that you want displayed on the login screen.
4. Save the configuration.

Setting Your User Profile

Multi-Grid Manager creates and stores a user profile for each admin user. Each user profile contains information about your admin group and admin type. You can modify information in your user profile any time after the initial login. You can set the following in your user profile:

• Change your password to facilitate future logins and add your email address for reference.
• Specify the amount of data Multi-Grid Manager can display in a table or in a single list view. You can improve the display performance by setting a smaller table size. The setting you specify here applies to all tables in Multi-Grid Manager.
• Specify the time zone Multi-Grid Manager uses to convert all displayed time values, such as the last login time. You can set the time zone to Auto -detect so Multi-Grid Manager sets the time zone based on the time zone of your browser. But if Multi-Grid Manager cannot automatically determine the time zone when you log in, it sets the time zone to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) standard. In this case, you can manually change the time zone.
• Validate your credentials on the applicable managed Grids, so you can access them from Multi-Grid Manager without having to log in to them each time.

Note that when multiple users log in to Multi-Grid Manager using the same admin account, they share the same user profile and preference settings, such as the widget, table size and column settings, independent of their browser settings. Instead of using the same admin account for multiple users, you can add multiple users to the same admin group so they can share the same permissions. For information about configuring admin accounts and admin groups, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180659.
To set up your user profile:

1. Select any tab in Multi-Grid Manager, and then click User Profile from the Toolbar.
2. In the User Profile editor, complete the following:
   • Name: Displays the name of the admin user.
   • Type: Displays your user type. This can be Local or Remote. The local admin accounts are stored in the local database, and the remote admin accounts are stored on another server, such as a RADIUS server.
     Multi-Grid Manager automatically deletes remote user profiles if the users have not logged in for more than six months.
   • Master Grid Group: Displays the admin group to which your account belongs. The admin group determines your administrative permissions. Only superusers can define admin groups for the Master Grid.
   • Grid Groups: The table displays the Grids that you can access through a single sign on to Multi-Grid Manager.
   • Set Password: If you are a local user, you can enter a new password for your account. If you are a remote user, you do not see this field.
   • Retype Password: Enter the same password.
   • Email Address: Enter your email address. Note that this address simply provides contact information. By default, this field is blank.
   • Table Size: Specify the number of lines of data you want a table or a single list view to contain. You can set the number of lines from 10 to 256. The default is 20.
   • Time Zone: Select the time zone used to convert all displayed time values. The default is Auto-detect time zone.
   • Grid Credentials: Click Validate to validate your credentials to other Grids so you can access them from Multi-Grid Manager without having to log in to each of them.
     In the User Validation Panel dialog box, select the checkbox of the applicable Grids, complete the following, and then click Validate:
     • User Name: Enter the user name you use to log in to the selected Grid.
     • Password: Enter the password.
   You can also select the checkbox of a Grid and click Ignore to instruct Multi-Grid Manager to skip validation for the Grid. You are then prompted to log in to the Grid every time you try to access it from Multi-Grid Manager. Use this option only for Grids that you don't have to access from Grid Manager.
   

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   Note: The user mapping settings are not preserved after you apply Snapshot/Template to a Grid, back up the current configuration or restore backup to a Grid, and promote a Master candidate. After you perform these activities, you need to validate your credentials. The Master Grid displays validated users and their corresponding Grids in the Administration tab -> User Mapping tab described in the next section, 19282515.
   

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3. Save the configuration.

Viewing Validated Users

Only admins with superuser accounts can view the list of validated users. To view the list of validated users and their Grids:

1. From the Administration tab, select the Administrators tab -> User Mapping tab.
2. Multi-Grid Manager displays the following information about each validated user on the Master Grid:
   • User: The user type.
   • Grid User: The name of the admin account.
   • Grid: The name of the Grid to which the user is validated.
   • Group: The name of the admin group on the specified Grid.
   • Validated: The status of the validation. This can be Ignored or Yes.

You can do the following in this panel:

• Select an admin account and click the Delete icon to delete it. The user must then log in to each Grid.
• Sort the data in ascending or descending order by column.
• Use filters and the Go to function to narrow down the list. With the autocomplete feature, you can just enter the first few characters of an object name in the Go to field and select the object from the possible matches.
• Create a quick filter to save frequently used filter criteria. For information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180172.