Profile Group Management (SCAN)
- Former user (Deleted)
- Benjamin Schröder
- Simone Conrad
Profile groups allow you to create sets of scan profiles gathered in a group. These groups may be assigned to users allowing you to keep it on one hand simple for your users and on the other easy manageable for your administrators or scan profile administrators.
In order to open the Profile Group administration, please click on the menu item Profile Groups.
Highlighted “Profile Groups” item in the “Administration” menu. |
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After entering the Profile Groups page KGS ScanServer will display a list consisting of the following elements on the right-hand side.
Column name | Description |
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Id | A unique Id of the profile group existing in KGS Scan Server |
Group Name | The name of the profile group which was defined by you when adding a new profile group |
Description | When adding a new profile group you may also set some description to it. Please note: It’s always good practice to add a description to the profile group that explains, by whom the profiles (e.g.: R&D department) might be used by and/or which kind of profiles are included. |
Profiles | Shows the number of profiles existing within this profile group |
Action | Within this column, you’ll always see three buttons: info, users, delete. |
Adding a new profile to the profile group
In order to add a new profile to the profile group, you may click the button + Add Profile Group … .
The modal Add Profile Group will be opened which allows you to define a name as well as a description for the newly created profile group.
Make sure that the Group Name has at least 3 digits!
Opened modal “Add Profile Group” |
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Opening the info modal of a profile group
When clicking on the Info-button you’ll see the following information.
Information name | Description |
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Name | The name of the scan profile group the modal was opened for. |
Last modified | The date and time when the profile group was lastly changed |
Version | The version number of the scan profile group. |
Last modification by | The user who has lastly modified the profile group. |
Upload Profiles | By clicking on the button Select Files you may upload scan profiles that have been retrieved from other scan profile groups. |
Profiles | Lists all profiles available and usable within this scan profile group. |
Opened “Profile Group Info” containing the information related to the scan profile group “Common-Test-Group” |
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Within the Profiles list, you’ll see the following information.
Information name | Description |
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Name | The name of the uploaded profile. |
Description | Contains the description, that has been defined within the scan profile. |
Last modified | Contains the date and time information, when the profile was lastly uploaded to the profile group. |
Actions | Within this column, you may download the scan profile as an XML file or delete a profile from the profile group. |
The buttons within the Actions-column allow you to download the profile from KGS ScanServer in XML format, as well as delete an uploaded profile from the profile group.
Within this modal, you may also upload a profile extracted e.g. from another KGS ScanServer and import it into the opened profile group.
In order to do, please click on the Select Files-button, select the downloaded XML representation of the profile extracted from another group or KGS ScanServer and press the Upload-button in order to import it into the opened profile group.
Opening the users dialog to display users related to a profile group
When clicking on the second icon within the Action-column of a profile group you’re able to see the users who have access to the profile group as well as some information regarding the profile group itself.
Information name | Description |
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Name | The name of the uploaded profile. |
Description | Contains the description, that has been defined within the scan profile. |
Last modified | Contains the date and time information, when the profile was lastly uploaded to the profile group. |
Actions | Within this column, you may download the scan profile as an XML file or delete a profile from the profile group. |
User | Contains a list of user name, who have access to the selected profile group. |
Opened profile group “Consulting-Scanprofiles” with information related to this profile group. |
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Deleting an existing profile group
The third button in the profile groups action column allows you to delete an existing profile group.
In case the users have already been associated with the profile group KGS ScanServer will display a warning which tells you, which users have been associated with the profile group you’re about to delete.
In order to confirm it, please click on the Delete-button.
Opened “Delete” dialog, which shows, that the profile group has already been assigned to two users. |
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