Understanding LDAP and its relation to roles and users

In IMPAX, you can define a hierarchy of roles and users. All users belong to a role. Then, you can define items such as licensing, permissions, and preferences at a role level, and all users within that role can inherit those settings. LDAP is the technology for storing these settings along with user-related preferences. For local IMPAX users who are not mapped to an external system, LDAP also stores the user IDs and passwords.

The LDAP server installed with IMPAX stores user settings. New user accounts can also be created in the IMPAX LDAP server, something PACS Administrators often need to do because some IT departments do not grant enterprise accounts to temporary users. For example, PACS Administrators can create accounts in the IMPAX LDAP server for residents who are on a two-month rotation at the hospital.

Enterprise LDAP servers

For sites that have an enterprise LDAP server or servers in their IT departments, all user information such as passwords and user IDs can be mapped from that system to users and roles in IMPAX. This decreases administration and maintenance work and allows users to have one set of login information.