Changing the Verified Patron Table for Web Access Management

To update the verified patron table, you must be assigned permission 698 (Edit the Web Access Management Verified Patron Table). If you are assigned permission 651 (View System Parameters) but not 698, you can view this file but cannot edit it. See Permissions Used by Sierra for more information.

The Verified Patron table defines the patron types that must be authenticated before those patrons can access a restricted database (as defined in the Forward table and the Limit Network Access table) via an alternate IP address set by your organization. Add entries for each incoming patron type, or group of patron types, that will send an alternate IP address to the database vendor.

Each entry in the Verified Patron table consists of the following:

IP Address Used

This entry is the alternate IP address to be sent to the vendor.

Home Libraries

If your organization does not differentiate between incoming patron types sending the same IP address to the vendor, enter "all" at this prompt. For example, for all patrons of PTYPE 60 to send the same IP address to the vendor, set "Home Libraries" to "all".
If your organization differentiates between the IP address sent to the vendor by home library and the IP address sent by the patron type, enter the five-character Home Library location code. If the code is shorter than five characters, insert extra spaces at the end to make it five characters long.

Patron Types

Enter the patron types. Entries can be comma-delimited or in a range, for example, "1-5,10,60". Enter "all" for all patron types. You can use open-ended ranges to include all patron types to the end of the list. For example, "1-5,10,55-" would include patron types 1 through 5, 10, and 55 to the end.

Use the following toolbar options to edit the Verified Patron table.

Append

Select this option to add a new entry to the end of the Verified Patron table. The system will prompt you to key each data element for the new entry (see the description of the data elements above).

Save

To save your changes to the Verified Patron table, choose Save. If you make changes to the Verified Patron table and do not save those changes, the system prompts you to save before you exit the Verified Patron table.

Delete

To delete an entry, select the entry and choose Delete. The deletion is not final until you save your changes.

Copy

To add a new entry that is similar to one that already exists in the table, you can copy the existing entry and then modify the appropriate data elements. The new entry is added to the end of the table.

Insert

To insert a new resource entry, choose Insert. At the Insert dialog, answer the prompts as needed.

Choose OK once you are done or choose Cancel to cancel the changes. Choose Print to print the entry you are adding.

Edit

To edit the elements of an existing entry, select the entry and choose Edit.

Modify your entry as needed. Choose OK once you are done or choose Cancel to cancel the changes. Choose Print to print the entry you are editing.

Move

To reorganize the entries, select the entry that you want to move and choose Move. The system then asks:

Move entries to row:

Enter the row number and choose OK. The entry will be inserted at the selected point, and all succeeding entries will be shifted down one position.

Print

To print the Verified Patron table, choose Print. Select the printer to use, then choose OK.

Close

Choose Close to close the Verified Patron table.

After editing the Verified Patron table, you must restart the Web server (webpac) and Proxy server (proxy) processes to effect your changes (see Restart a Terminal for information on restarting a process).

Note that if your organization is running multiple Web servers (e.g., for multiple languages), you must restart all Web server processes with the Restart MULTIPLE Terminals option.