Active Sensing, Inc.
		Acseni® Configuration & Data Management System

Security

Acseni uses role-based security to control access to document records and library files. Although a virtually unlimited number of user records may be maintained, the system accepts a maximum of 250 simultaneous security accounts. There are three principal security roles:

• Guests may view records and, if permitted, print reports;
• Normal users have general capabilities to add new records, create change actions, and perform other permitted actions; and
• Administrators manage the system security model, creating new user security accounts.

Sets of over-lapping roles provide greater control over record modification and document approvals:

• Group signers are users who have been assigned special permission to approve a change action on behalf of their group. Users can be authorized group signers for more than one group, and groups can have more than one group signer.
• Any user who creates a new document master or variation record is that record’s owner. Normal users are prevented from modifying or deleting a record that is owned by someone else. An owner of a library file can limit other users’ ability to view, copy, and modify the checked-in file; at the owner’s option, guests can have view and copy permissions.
• Members of the configuration management group ("CM group") have all rights of ownership for all document records, and can change a record’s ownership.
• CM group signers have the unique responsibility of submitting engineering change actions for other groups’ approvals. In addition, a system option permits CM group signers wide latitude in compensating for normal clerical errors.

Of course, a document’s release status further constrains users’ ability to add, modify, or delete related records.

Acseni supports user-managed passwords; system administrators can clear a user’s password if forgotten, but cannot examine it.

Technical Support for current users

ACSENI has been replaced by PDXpert Product Lifecycle Management software

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