How To Manage Security Settings In Room Alert Manager

In Room Alert Manager, administrators can configure security settings, including:

• maximum session times & inactivity logouts
• failed login limits & lockout periods
• password expirations

To edit Room Alert Manager’s Security Settings, please follow the instructions below.

1. Open Room Alert Manager in your web browser.
   • You may open it by entering ‘localhost:9393’ or ‘<IP address of host system>:9393’ in your browser’s address bar. For more information, please see our FAQ, How to Open Room Alert Manager’s Web Interface.
2. In order to configure Security Settings in Room Alert Manager, you must log in as an admin-level user.
   • For more information, please see the “Types of user roles” section of our FAQ, How To Configure Users In Room Alert Manager.
3. Navigate to Settings –> Security.
   
4. Show below are the Security Settings at defaults:
   

• In Max Session Time, enter the maximum number of minutes that a user can be logged into a single Room Alert Manager session before their session expires, requiring them to log in again.
  • The default is 1440 minutes (24 hours).
• In Session Inactivity Limit, enter the number of minutes that a user can be inactive before getting logged out of Room Alert Manager.
  • The default is 30 minutes.
• Failed Login Limit is disabled by default.
  • Enable this feature if you’d like users to get locked out of Room Alert Manager for a period of time after too many failed login attempts.
• In Max Failed Logins, enter the number of consecutive failed login attempts that cause a user to get locked out of Room Alert Manager.
  • The default (when this feature is enabled) is 5 attempts.
• In Lockout Period, enter the number of minutes that a user get locked out before they can attempt another login.
  • The default (when this feature is enabled) is 30 minutes.
  • For information about unlocking a user, please see our FAQ, How To Unlock Users In Room Alert Manager.
• Password Expiration is disabled by default.
  • The default (when this feature is enabled) is 90 days.

5. When you’re done making changes to your Security Settings, select Save Changes.