Roles determine which devices users can access. Roles also determine rights and handle security within the video management system. First, you add roles, then you add users and groups and finally a Smart Client and a Management Client profile as well as other default profiles that belong to each role. Roles you can create in the system have their own view groups in XProtect Smart Client in which their views are created and stored.
The system comes with one predefined role which you cannot delete: the Administrators role. Users and groups with the Administrators role have complete and unrestricted access to the entire system. For this reason, you cannot specify role settings for the Administrators role. The Administrators role has the default Smart Client profile and the default evidence lock profiles and does not have a time profile.
Users with local machine administrator rights on the computer running the management server automatically have administrator rights on the management server. Only users whom you trust as administrators of your system should have local machine administrator rights on the computer running the management server. You cannot turn this off. You add users and groups to the Administrators role just as with any other role. See Assign and remove users and groups to/from roles.
In addition to the Administrators role, you can add as many roles as required to suit your needs. You may, for example, have different roles for users of XProtect Smart Client depending on which cameras you want them to access or similar restrictions. To set up roles in your system, expand the Security > Roles.
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