The Manage Credentials tool, or “Credentials Manager” provides a dialog box to access and open any previously “remembered” (cached) connections from your Workbench, including both platform and station connections.

You can also remove or reset any cached credentials. Note that your credentials cache is populated whenever you have the login (Authentication) dialog option “Remember these credentials” (check box) enabled, as shown in Figure 363. Starting in AX-3.7, any initial platform or station connection, this option is disabled (unchecked) by default.

The available caching of credentials is a convenience feature, such that you can simply open the platform or station later by entering only the IP address, or simply clicking on that host’s dimmed platform or station in the Nav tree of Workbench, or going to the credentials manager. Then, the login authentication dialog (Figure 364) has the cached credentials already entered, and you simply click OK.

If you want tighter security for any platform or station connection from your Workbench PC, you should clear this check box whenever opening (logging on) a platform or station. Furthermore, you should remove any related entries using the credentials manager (Figure 363). This way, that platform or station connection always requires full entry of both user name and password.

Starting in AX-3.7, you can globally disable user credentials caching in Workbench, via Tools->Options, in the General menu. When “Allow User Credentials Caching” is set to false, the “Remember these credentials” checkbox remains unavailable (dimmed) in any Authentication dialog.

For related details, see General options.