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Administrators of a Partek Flow server can manage access to files, folders and specific projects across all users of the server. These tools are particularly important in large organizations utilizing a shared server. This section details the following tools:
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To access the Licensing page, select the avatar in the top right corner, choose Settings and select Licensing on the left (Figure 1). This page can be accessed by administrative Partek Flow users only.
This page displays the status of all license features and toolkits, including their expiration dates. If a license needs to be updated, copy and paste the new license key into the License key box and select the Update button. For your convenience, the Partek product and Host ID information is displayed on the screen. If you need a new license key, this information can be copied and sent to licensing@partek.com.
For additional information about the licensing features and toolkits, please see here. Alternatively, please contact your account manager.
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Failed logins is an administrative tool providing an overview of login attempts that were not successful. To invoke it, first log in as a user with administrative privileges and then go to Settings > Access management > Failed logins. Example report is given in Figure 1.
Each row of the table is a single failed login attempt; the time is given in the first column, the display name that was typed in on the login screen in the second column, and the reason for the failure in the third column. Possible reasons are: Invalid credentials, No concurrent license available, and Limited to administration.
Orphaned files are files that were previously imported into projects or generated by project tasks but were left behind when the projects or tasks were deleted. They no longer belong to any projects but still consume disk space, which counts against any server quota, though not individual user quotas. If you transfer files to Flow server outside Partek Flow, for instance when you use SFTP access to the server, before the files got imported into any projects, those transferred files are also considered as orphaned files. If you use Transfer files function within Flow, the files are not considered orphaned files.
In the orphaned file table, each row is a file, file name including the path, creator and size of the file will be displayed. Click on the Delete file in the Actions column to delete a file on that row in the table (Figure 1). If you search for a file name/folder name or creator by typing in the search box on the upper-right corner above the table, the table will display only the files containing the searched keyword.
The Delete all filtered orphaned files button (Figure 1) will delete all the files displayed in the current table. If you want to clean up all the files within a certain project output folder, search for the folder name and click "Delete all filtered orphaned files". However it is always a good idea to check all the files before delete.
Partek Flow users can be organized into groups. For example, user accounts can be organized by research group, privilege level (e.g. administrative vs non-administrative) or by pre-defined groups determined by a database. This enables easier among multiple Partek Flow users and makes it easier to define for groups of users. For editions, administrative users can generate usage report per group and reserve a number of concurrent licenses for groups.
To access the User Management page, click the avatar in the top right corner, choose Settings and click User management on the left (Figure 1). This page can be accessed by administrative and non-administrative Partek Flow users.
Owner – choose the owner of the group from the drop-down list of Partek Flow users. Alternatively, start typing a few characters of the users’ display name and Partek Flow will suggest users that are available for you to choose.
Source is … – this checkbox is only available to administrative users. Select this check box if you want to create a group based on the configured LDAP database. Leaving this checkbox unselected means the group will be created and managed entirely within Partek Flow.
Group name – if the source is an LDAP database, start typing a few characters of the group name and Partek Flow will suggest available groups for you to choose. If the group is managed entirely within Partek Flow, simply type the name of the new group.
Display name – only visible if the source is an LDAP database. If you want the LDAP group name to appear differently in Partek Flow, type in an alternative name. If you want the LDAP group name to appear the same in Partek Flow, leave this field blank.
Partek Flow can be configured to permit specific user access to directories listed in the Directory permissions page.
When the Enforce permissions checkbox (Figure 1) is selected, the only directories that users can access are those listed under the Directory column. Access means being able to see the directory when browsing, so that files can be created in it or selected from it. This permission is recursively applied to any subfolder of the listed directory.
The enforced permission can be applied to a specific user, several users, or a group (shown under the Users column). Access for each directory can be edited or revoked by selecting the edit or delete Action icons, respectively. Note that files already part of a project can always be analyzed by the collaborators of that project.
This feature is particularly important for creating isolated directories for each user. For more information on setting-up isolated directories, please refer to the documentation on .
To permit access to a new directory, click the Permit access to a new directory button. This will bring up the Add directory permissions window (Figure 2).
Browse to the desired directory or create a new folder. Using the arrow buttons, select the users that will be granted access to that folder. Alternatively, if you want all users to access the folder (such as folders for shared reference genome or gene annotation files), select the All users checkbox.
If a specific directory containing files used by Partek Flow (such as raw data files) has been renamed or moved, you can use the Directory reassignment tool to ensure Partek Flow can continually access relevant files. Enter the former and current directory paths to reassign them.
Access control log is administrative tool giving an overview of Partek Flow users' access privileges. The tool focuses on activities related to and Group management. To invoke it, first log in as a user with administrative privileges and then go to Settings > Access management > Access control log. Example report is given in Figure 1.
The first column (Time) contains the timestamp of the activity. Column Changer shows you the display name of the Partek Flow user who changed the access along with their permanent numeric identifier (parenthesized). The current display name of the changed user, as well as the matching numeric ID, can be seen in the Object column. Finally, the change made to the object, followed by the project (the number in the parenthesis is the change counter), role or privilege is listed in the Change column. Text boxes on top of each column are search tools, while the arrows icon enables to sort the column ascending or descending.
Partek Flow supports multiple user accounts, allowing you to keep your Partek Flow server secure and organized. This also facilitates on projects. Administrative users have access to all parts of the software including server configuration, whereas non-administrative users only have access to the features necessary for data analysis. The first Partek Flow user account is created during , which is always an administrative user account.
Please note that Partek Flow users do not correspond to Linux or Mac users. A Partek Flow administrative account is not the same as a Linux ‘root’ user (see ). All user accounts created in Partek Flow are internal to the Partek Flow server .
To access the User Management page, click the avatar in the top right corner, choose Settings and click Users in the Access section on the left (Figure 1). This page can be accessed by administrative Partek Flow users only.
The table on the User management page displays user account information and status, with one user account per row. By default, the table will display all enabled users accounts that are online and offline. To change which users are displayed, select or deselect the checkboxes above the table (Figure 1).
By clicking on the Send message button at Actions column, the administrative user can send an e-mail notification about account creation (Figure 2). The email template depends on the user database, i.e., within an LDAP or not within an LDAP database (vide infra).
If multiple Partek Flow users are logged into an instance at the same time, administrative users have the ability to log them out by clicking the Log out user button at Actions column. If a user is logged out by an administrator and the user has tasks running or in the queue, those tasks will continue to run.
Click the + Add new user at the top of the User management page
Select a Source for LDAP database from the drop down list in the Add user dialog (Figure 3)
Start typing a few characters of the username you wish to add in the Username box and Partek Flow will suggest users that are available on your LDAP database. Select one of the suggested usernames and the Username, Display name and Email will autocomplete. You can change the Display name if necessary
There may be more than one email address associated with a user in the LDAP database, so choose the correct one from the Email drop-down list
To give the new user account administrative privileges, select the Administrator checkbox (optional)
Click Save
The new user account will be active immediately. The new user can log into the Partek Flow instance using the same username and password as their email account. Please note, the new user will not be able to manage their username and password settings from within Partek Flow, as this is determined by the LDAP server.
Click the + Add new user at the top of the User management page
Select Source in the Add user dialog
Type a username, display name and email address in the respective fields
To give the new user account administrative privileges, select the Administrator checkbox (optional)
Click Save
The screen will return to the User management page and there will be a message at the top of the screen (Figure 4). The new user needs to click on the link sent via email and follow the on-screen instructions for creating a password.
To disable a user account, deselect the checkbox in the Status column in the table on the User management page (Figure 5). The user account will then disappear from the table. If a user account if disabled while the user is logged in, they will immediately be logged out.
If a user account is disabled and they have tasks running or in the queue, you will be asked if you want to cancel them (Figure 6).
If a user tries to log into the Partek Flow instance and their account has been disabled, they will see a warning message (Figure 7).
To display disabled user accounts, select the Disabled from the Status drop down list in the table (Figure 9). Disabled accounts can be easily re-enabled by selecting the check box in the Status column.
When a user is no longer a user on this Partek Flow instance, for instance, the user left the insititue, all the projects he created can be transfered to another user by clicking Transfer Projects' ownership (Figure 10).
Specify the old owner username and new owner name, click Transfer projects button.
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Both administrative and non-administrative users can create groups. Partek Flow user accounts must exist before they can be organised into groups. See for information on how to create user accounts. To create a new group, click on the green Add new group button on the Group Management Page (Figure 1), complete the Add new group dialog (Figure 2) and click Save.
Group members – if the source is an LDAP database, members that are also Partek Flow users will be listed as group members in the dialog. Not all LDAP group members will be listed, just those that have Partek Flow user accounts. If the group is being managed entirely within Partek Flow, choose the group members from the drop-down list of Partek Flow users and select the green plus icon (). Alternatively, start typing a few characters of the users’ display name and Partek Flow will suggest users that are available for you to choose. To remove a group member, select the red cross icon ().
The new group can be further managed by the group owner or an administrative user. Group membership and other details can be edited by selecting the yellow pencil icon () in the table on the Group Management page (Figure 1). A group picture can be uploaded by selecting the image icon (). A group can be deleted by selecting the red cross icon ().
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The number of available Partek Flow user licenses is displayed at the top of the User management page. This shows the number of user accounts that can be enabled. Administrative user accounts will not consume licenses, unless they become a member of any project, in which case they will consume a Partek Flow user licence. Please contact your account manager or email if you wish to increase the number of user licenses on your Partek Flow instance. If all available user licenses have been consumed, you will have to before adding a new user. Disabled user accounts are easily re-enabled.
New Partek Flow user accounts can be created using username and password credentials from a database, if configured. You can create user accounts too.
The new user account can also have a Private directory. If so, then that directory will be the default output directory for the users and all the project directories will be created underneath it. The user will be the only one with the access to the directory specified in the dialog box, unless permissions (to either the Private directory or one if its parents) are given using .
To set a disk space usage limit on the new user account, select the Disk quota radio button and type in the disk quota limit in GB (optional). This limit includes input and output files across all projects the new user will own. To allow unrestricted disk usage, select the None radio button. Disk quota preferences can be managed on the . Note that setting disk quotas require an
To set a disk space usage limit on the new user account, select the Disk quota radio button and type in the disk quota limit in GB (optional). This limit includes input and output files across all projects the new user owns. To allow unrestricted disk usage, select the None radio button. Disk quota preferences can be managed on the . Note that setting disk quotas require an
To edit user account details, click on the Edit account next to the user account in the Actions column (Figure 1). This will open the same dialog as in Figure 3, with the user account details filled out. An administrative user can make the necessary changes and click Save. Users can also edit some of their own details .
Users that have had their account disabled will no longer appear as a member of a project on the . Under the tab of a project, their username and avatar will still be shown, but with a strikethrough (Figure 8).
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