1. Introduction

This document is called the “Trident User Manual” because it is focused on the daily operational aspects of using a Trident portal in the context of trust group activities. It is thus focused on “user” activities, not “system administration” activities. There are some terms that will be used in this document and that form the basis for how it is structured:

• A trust group (also known as a “TG” for short), is an operational concept of the Trident portal that includes users who are trust group administrators and/or trust group members. These are all portal users, so the term “users” is too vague to be useful. Details on TG formation and operation are covered in Trust Groups and Trident.
• A trust group administrator is someone who has leadership responsibility for handling the membership details and overall organization of information in a Trident portal system. Things that TG admins need to know are found in Trust Group Administration.
• A trust group member is someone who is a member of a given trust group. (There may be more than one trust group, but you can only be active in one trust group at a time, so the focus will always be on “the active trust group.”) Information about using the portal for TG members is covered in Trust Group Member Activities.
• Finally, there are also portal administrators who have access to the trident account, which is the primary account for controlling the entire portal. They are also sometimes called site administrators. (They may or may not be the same as the system administrators, who have full access to the operating system underlying the Trident portal. The system administrators are the ones who manage the Ansible variables and run the Ansible playbooks described in the DIMS Ansible playbooks v 2.14.0 document.)