
Chapter 8 Security Management 389
Business Communications Manager - Management User Guide
1 Select Management, User Manager.
The User Profile screen appears showing the current user profile information.
2 Click the Lockout Policy tab.
The default is to have Lockout Policy enabled.
3 Use the information provided in the following table to determine the lockout policy for your
system. The settings are effective as soon as they are entered.
Setting password policy
You can define the system parameters for the passwords that you assign to users by determining
the length, age and history that the passwords must meet.
1 Select Management, User Manager.
The User Profile screen appears showing the current user profile information.
2 Click the Password Policy tab.
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Security Note: Lockout policy is enabled as the default. This policy is particularly
important to stop unauthorized logon attempts to your Business Communications
Manager system.
You can further tighten the access security to the system by setting the account lockout
threshold to a recommended value of 5.
Attribute Value Description
Lockout Policy Enabled
Disabled
The Enabled setting allows you to set the following three
parameters.
If you choose Disabled, no configurable parameters display.
Failed Logon Attempts
Before Lockout
<digits> Default: 50
Enter the number of times the user can attempt to enter a
password before the user is locked out.
Reset Failed Logon
Attempts Count after
(min)
<minutes> Default: 30
The amount of time before the lockout counter is reset.
Note: This does not necessarily mean the user was locked out.
Lockout Duration (min) <minutes> Default: 30
The amount of time that passes after the user is locked out and
before they are allowed to try to log in again, and the Reset count
is set back to zero.
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