Application Settings

About the Application Settings page

The Application Settings page has several tabs, all of which have different information and configuration options for the VitalSigns environment. The options and features for the Setting alone are enough to fill this tab, so the subsequent tabs will be covered in child pages here:

• Credentials
• Business Hours
• Maintenance Hours
• Manage Server Locations
• Manage VitalSigns Users
• User Interface Profiles

Preferences

The Preferences tab is where the most basic of settings and field for VitalSigns can be found. These settings include the following:

• License Information
• General Settings

License Information

The License Information portion of the page contains a button labelled "Enter License Key".

This button prompts a window to appear that a license key provided by RPR Wyatt  shall be pasted.

Encrypted into the key is information about the company intended to use the key.

General Settings

The General Settings 

The General Settings portion of the page contains fields for the following:

• Company Name
• Currency Symbol
• Monitoring Delay
• Active Directory Authentication (The below settings are reveled when this setting is enabled)
  • Active Directory URL
  • Active Directory Login ID
  • Active Directory Login Password
• Purge Interval

Company Name should be the name of your company. Currency Symbol should be the symbol of your local currency. Monitoring Delay is the amount of minutes before VitalSigns will trigger a Delayed Scanning alert if no scans have taken place. Active Directory Authentication is a checkbox that will enable AD authentication within VitalSigns. The following 3 fields are also required to be filled out. Active Directory URL is the URL of the AD server within your network. Active Directory Login ID is an ID that can be used to login to AD. Active Directory Login Password is the password to the ID provided before. Purge Interval is the amount of time VitalSigns should keep statistics saved.