Online Manual: "User Management Resource Adminstrator"
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What is User Management Resource Administrator
Welcome to User Management Resource Administrator (UMRA). UMRA is an
advanced management system to manage user accounts, user account resources
and other network objects. UMRA supports a wide variety of functions and
a number of different interfaces. Features include the creation, deletion
and configuration of user accounts, mailboxes, (home) directories, groups,
group memberships, permission settings and many more.
With the different UMRA interfaces, you can create and manage user accounts
in bulk, one-by-one, in a delegated manner, by a command-line interface
and through a web interface.
UMRA Scripts
UMRA uses scripts to perform its tasks. A script is a collection of
statements or actions (examples: Create user, Setup mailbox) that each
perform a specifc task. The different actions available in UMRA to compose
a script, focus on the management of user accounts, resources, mailboxes
and so on. A script with multiple actions for instance create a user account,
sets up the home and profile directories and permissions, adds the new
user account to a number of groups and creates an Exchange mailbox for
the user account.
UMRA supports a graphical interface to setup a new script or edit existing
scripts. The interface is designed to make it very easy to setup a new
script or edit an existing script.
UMRA Projects
Different types of UMRA projects exist. Each project contains an UMRA
script and a specification how the script is executed. The two main project
types are:
Mass create-update-delete
projects: The project contains a table with input data. The input
data is for instance read from a csv file. For each line of the input
file, the script is executed. A mass project is typically used to create,
update or delete user accounts and resources. See Principle
of operation for more information. Form project:
The project contains the definition of a form. The form typically contains
a number of fields like tables, text, input fields. The form is presented
in a separate interface (UMRA forms) or a web-interface (browser). When
the form fields are specified by the end-user and the form is submitted,
the script of the form project is executed. See Form
project - Principle of operation for more information.
UMRA Software
UMRA consists of a number of software applications:
UMRA Console:
The main application that is primarily used to manage all UMRA projects
and manage the UMRA service. To use UMRA, you always start with the UMRA
Console application. UMRA Service: The UMRA service is used to execute delegated
tasks. The UMRA Service is accessed through the UMRA Console and UMRA
Forms application. You only need to install the UMRA Service application
if you want to execute forms projects. See UMRA
Delegation - General and Form
project - Local or server project for more information. UMRA
Forms: The Windows interface
to show and submit delegated forms. The UMRA Forms application is most
often used by helpdesk employees. The UMRA Forms application interfaces
with the UMRA Service application directly. See UMRA
forms - Introduction and Form
project - Local or server project for more information.
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