• Centralized machine and account management as well as access control
  • Centralized management of system operators, allows for addition, deletion and editing of maintenance personnel; group of maintenance personnel. Super operators can manage regular operators,, add new operators and delete obsolete operators
  • Register machines to Fortress for management, including servers and networking devices. Allows for grouping machines. Allows for region-based grouping and category-based grouping (e.g. finance group, HR group, CRM group, etc)
  • Role-based access control management. Allows for assigning different access rights to different roles, using different accounts on different machines and machine groups. This way, different operators can be assigned to different machines by simply assigning different roles. Uses the Access Rights Table to verify, control and record the system access rights for operators
• Real-time Monitoring

The super user can monitor the operations of on-line operators in real time and intervene into the operations of any operator if necessary. Specifically,

• Via a special monitor window, the system administrator can perform real-time monitoring on all on-line operators especially new users and system maintenance operators to avoid operational errors
• Check on-line user statuses, know system utilization situation of each user
• The system administrator can immediately intervene into the dialog of any user, cut the link between the user and the machine to avoid system problems upon detection of improper operations

• Auditing
  Record the operations of users for the auditing purpose. Specifically,
  • Supports query and statistics of log-on time, log-off time of maintenance personnel
  • Preserves logs of maintenance operations for the checking and auditing purposes

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