TRANSFER Administration Guide Volume 1 Reference Manual

Function Keys

Getting Started with ADMIN

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On the version displayed for system administrators who can write on the screen, most

fields are highlighted, indicating that they can be altered.

On the read-only version, the fields are not highlighted because their values cannot be

changed. With other screens, the system administrator's version contains more fields

and function keys than the read-only version. These differences in screen functionality

enable the system administrator with write privileges to perform administrative tasks

that users without such privileges cannot perform.

ADMIN System

Administrator

The ADMIN system administrator is the support person called upon to perform the

following functions:

Customize individual and group profiles and agents

Maintain commonly used distribution lists

Train correspondents to use TRANSFER clients

Creating Administrators

and Correspondents

When TRANSFER is initialized on a node, a depot (the model depot) is automatically

created for one correspondent with system administrative write privileges. The

system manager or ADMIN system administrator will normally take ownership of this

original depot.

The model depot contains all the profiles used by TRANSFER to perform functions for

a correspondent. The depot includes a TRANSFER correspondent profile and mail

profile, as well as any agent profiles. The depot also initially contains three folders

where messages are filed: the INBOX, the OUTLOG, and the WASTEBASKET.

The ADMIN system administrator can use the original model depot along with

additional model correspondent depots to expedite registering other administrators

and correspondents to the node. Each new user receives an individual depot with

attributes identical to the model depot specified when the user was registered.

Any system administrator with write privileges can then, in turn, define new

correspondents or perform any other administrative function related to TRANSFER

for any correspondent on a given node.

See Section 3, “Listing, Adding, and Deleting Correspondents,” and Section 4,

“Managing Correspondent Profiles,” for information on adding correspondents, using

model depots, and defining and customizing user profiles. Profiles to be customized

may include customer-designed profiles. See your system manager to learn whether

custom profiles will be implemented at your site .

Function Keys Each ADMIN screen lists the function keys on your terminal keyboard that are valid

for that screen. Each listed key is labeled with the task you can perform by pressing it.

An unshifted function key is identified by the letter F and the number of the key (for

example, F16). A shifted function key is identified by the letters SF and the number of

the key (for example, SF16).

The special purpose keys PREV PAGE and NEXT PAGE are active on ADMIN screens

with two or more pages and allow you to move back and forth between the pages.