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SENTRY
The Integrated Security System
Release 4
User Guide
Fitzgerald & Long
12341 E. Cornell Avenue, #18
Aurora, Colorado 80014-3323 USA
Phone: (303) 755-1102
FAX: (303) 755-1703
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NOTICE The information contained in this guide is subject to change without notice. Fitzgerald & Long, Inc. shall not be liable for technical or editorial omissions made herein; nor for incidental or consequential damages resulting from the furnishing, performance, or use of this material. This guide contains information protected by copyright. No part of this guide may be photocopied or reproduced in any form without prior written consent from Fitzgerald & Long, Inc. Copyright
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Table Of Contents USING THIS GUIDE---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro - 1 USING THE SCREENS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intro - 3 INSTALLING SENTRY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Intro - 5 GETTING STARTED--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro - 8 INTRODUCING THE MAIN ME
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SENTRY User’s Guide Introduction - 1 USING THIS GUIDE The SENTRY User's Guide is comprehensive in its descriptions of all of SENTRY's menus, data entry screens and reports. The Guide follows the same structure as the SENTRY menu system. There are four major sections in SENTRY. These are: 1. Database Creation and Validation 2. Database Maintenance 3. Reports 4. Utilities Additionally, there is an introductory section and a number of appendices. The introduction includes an
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Introduction - 2 SENTRY User’s Guide PI/open the command prompt is indicated by a colon “:” while for uniVerse the prompt is a greater-than sign “>”. Fitzgerald & Long
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SENTRY User’s Guide Introduction - 3 USING THE SCREENS SENTRY data entry screens feature some very helpful functions. These include "repaint", "backup", "escape" (exit without update), “execute” and "help". The following paragraphs describe each function. Repaint ^^ Enter a caret twice, followed by . The caret key is generally located on the same key as the "6" (SHIFT 6). This is a total of three key strokes. The screen will be repainted and the cursor will be
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Introduction - 4 SENTRY User’s Guide Data Entry Conventions Underscore/underline When awaiting data, the cursor is positioned at the beginning of the field. The field is delineated by underscores. A sentence describing the field is displayed at the bottom of the screen. No data appearing on the underscore is an indication that the field in the database is currently null. Field numbers Each data entry screen and menu uses sequential numbers which appear at the left of the fiel
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SENTRY User’s Guide Introduction - 5 INSTALLING SENTRY Installing the SENTRY software is very simple! Just follow these easy steps. If you encounter problems at any point, please call us for additional assistance. Before you begin, check your system to see if there is a possible conflict with the accounts we will be loading. Do you have an account or user name called "sentry" or "sentry.practice"? If you have an account or user ID which uses either of these names, DO NOT INSTALL
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Introduction - 6 SENTRY User’s Guide 6. Notice a file named "install". This is a script which will perform the steps necessary to install the SENTRY software. Execute the script by entering: ./install 7. Next type the command to enter your database environment (uv, udt, piopen). You should now see the TCL prompt ">" or “:”. If you see the UNIX message “… :not found” when you enter the command, it means that your PATH variable is not setup to contain the path to the command
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SENTRY User’s Guide Introduction - 7 SENTRY Main Menu 07 AUG 2000 1. Database Creation and Validation Menu 2. Database Maintenance Menu 3. Reports Menu 4. Utilities Menu Please select one of the above: Figure 1 - Main Menu 11. At this point you are ready to begin loading your data into the SENTRY database. This procedure is described in the following section “Getting Started”. Fitzgerald & Long
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Introduction - 8 SENTRY User’s Guide GETTING STARTED This section describes how to invoke the SENTRY Main Menu. It also describes the copyright and the validation screen which will be displayed as you enter SENTRY. Additionally, the first three steps for loading the SENTRY database are presented. < < S E N T R Y - Serial Number 00.08.70100 > > This version of SENTRY has been prepared expressly for Fitzgerald & Long, Inc. 12341 East Cornell Avenue Aurora, Colorado
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SENTRY User’s Guide Introduction - 9 Our recommendation is that you create a userid called sentry with the UID of 0 (zero). This user will have “sentry” as its “home” directory and will invoke the database on login. Suggestion: use SENTRY to create this user while “getting started” with SENTRY. At TCL, enter: SENTRY The SENTRY copyright screen (Figure 2) will be displayed. This screen reminds you that SENTRY is protected by copyright law and is licensed for use to the company
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Introduction - 10 SENTRY User’s Guide This is a safety precaution. SENTRY is a very powerful tool and should only be used by the System Administrator or his designee. SENTRY is designed to be a single user utility. Therefore, only one user at a time is allowed into SENTRY. The third SENTRY screen (Figure 3) informs you that SENTRY is validating that your user ID has a UID of 0 (zero). If it does NOT, you will see the message: “You must be a super-user to use SENTRY!” The va
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SENTRY User’s Guide Introduction - 11 wish to send the report to a specific printer, form or destination use the SETPTR command to set your printer parameters before executing this selection. After performing these steps your SENTRY database reflects the actual state of your system. You may now use the Database Maintenance Menu to fix the inconsistencies reported by the validation program or to modify users, groups and file permissions. You may also begin to protect database commands.
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Introduction - 12 SENTRY User’s Guide INTRODUCING THE MAIN MENU SENTRY'S Main Menu follows the copyright screen and the System Administrator validation screen. It is the entry point into the four submenus. The four submenus are presented as selections 1 through 4 (Figure 4). SENTRY Main Menu 07 AUG 2000 1. Database Creation and Validation Menu 2. Database Maintenance Menu 3. Reports Menu 4. Utilities Menu Plea
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SENTRY User’s Guide Introduction - 13 The first selection, Database Creation and Validation Menu offers access to programs which upload the information in the UNIX passwd and group files into SENTRY's database. Another program transverses the disks, reading the permissions, owner and group for each file and directory and loading cross reference information into SENTRY's database. Once the data are loaded, you should test the consistency of the data by executing the validation program.
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SENTRY User’s Guide Section 1 - 1 1. INTRODUCING THE DATABASE CREATION AND VALIDATION MENU The first selection of SENTRY's Main Menu is Database Creation and Validation. This menu provides access to programs which will build SENTRY’s database from your existing user, group and file system data. SENTRY Main Menu 07 AUG 2000 1. Database Creation and Validation Menu 2. Database Maintenance Menu 3. Reports Menu
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Section 1 - 2 SENTRY User’s Guide 1.0 DATABASE CREATION AND VALUDATION MENU This is the first submenu accessible from SENTRY's Main Menu. It is also the first selection you will make after installing SENTRY. Through this menu, you will execute programs which load all the UNIX passwd and group information on your system into SENTRY's database. SENTRY Database Creation and Validation Menu 07 AUG 2000 1. Upload User and Group Profiles from UNIX 2. C
