{"id":339,"date":"2010-07-14T12:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T11:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-07-14T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T11:45:46","slug":"visitor-network-account-management-enhancements-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/2010\/07\/14\/visitor-network-account-management-enhancements-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitor Network Account Management (enhancements update)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: this post relates to a private service for University of Oxford IT Support Staff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal\">Some time back I published a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/2010\/02\/15\/updates-to-the-visitor-network-account-management-tool\/\">list of proposed updates to the Visitor Network account management web tool<\/a>, and asked for feedback. Based on that article the first major phase of work is now complete, so I&#8217;m pleased to say that you&#8217;ll now find the tool has these improvements:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A note about there being a max. of 300 accounts when auto\/bulk generating<\/li>\n<li>Auto-generated account names have leading zeros so they can sort correctly in a list<\/li>\n<li>Password generation rules tweaked so they don&#8217;t begin or end with a symbol (non-alphanum) or have repeating symbols<\/li>\n<li>The 14 day one-off account lifetime-limit now really is 14 days (and not 13d 45m)<\/li>\n<li>There is a confirmation dialog box when deleting a group containing still-valid accounts<\/li>\n<li>IP accounting fixed so we have byte counts both in and out once again<\/li>\n<li>Ability to upload a list of visitor names when bulk generating accounts (as alternative to auto-generated names)<\/li>\n<li>Ability to download comma separated list of the account names and credentials within a custom group<\/li>\n<li>The default end time for groups and users is now one day in the future<\/li>\n<li>Freedom to use any characters in the text fields of the form<\/li>\n<li>Clicking enable\/disable\/delete remembers your place in the tool when the action is complete<\/li>\n<li>A calendar date-picker widget to ease selection of start\/end dates<\/li>\n<li>Improved auditing shows who last edited a group, and we keep 90 days&#8217; logs of admin tool activity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, we&#8217;ve set up a RADIUS service hosting the Visitor Network account credentials. This means you can use the Visitor Network accounts and web admin tool simply as a back-end to your own log-in portal or other authentication system, as you wish. For further information please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/comms.oucs.ox.ac.uk\/itss\/visitorauth\">registration tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll find these enhancements as welcome as I do personally! Please let me know via <a href=\"mailto:networks@oucs.ox.ac.uk\">networks@oucs.ox.ac.uk<\/a> if you spot any bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: this post relates to a private service for University of Oxford IT Support Staff. Some time back I published a list of proposed updates to the Visitor Network account management web tool, and asked for feedback. Based on that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/2010\/07\/14\/visitor-network-account-management-enhancements-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-services","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}