X-600M Users Manual Configuration and Setup
to save the settings to the database and this can soon become tedious. You will find it more efficient to
make all of the changes, and then click the Commit Changes button to save all of the changes to the
database at once. New or edited settings will not become functional until the Commit Changes button is
pressed.
If you click the View Dashboards menu tab and discover that the components are blank or don't work,
the problem could be that you have not committed your changes to the database. If this occurs you have
not lost your settings, simply go back to one of the configuration tabs and click the Commit Changes
button.
3.7 Dashboard Access - Users and Access Groups
The X-600M has flexible and advanced access control features needed for real-world applications.
Access to the setup pages described in the sections below always requires administrator privilege with a
username and password. User access to the Dashboards is configurable. The System>Overview
setup page has a global setting for Dashboard and I/O Password Protection. See Section 4.1
This setting can be used to enable or disable password access to the Dashboards and I/O. The default
setting is Disabled. Check the Enabled setting if you wish to require users to enter a username and
password to access the Dashboards. If password protection is enabled, Access Groups and other
menus used to manage password access are displayed in subsequent menus. If password protection is
disabled, Access Groups and other menus used to manage password access are not displayed in
subsequent menus. This global setting helps keep the setup pages simple and easy to use for those
who do not need password protection.
3.7.1 Access Groups
The X-600M supports five different access groups. All groups can be configured as a Read Only group
or Read Writable group. Read Only groups allow monitoring of I/O only. Read Writable groups allow
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