Cumulus® Vault is a version control system that gives your workgroup added data security and up-to-the-minute information on the status of each asset. As its name suggests, Vault enhances the security of your team’s assets – controlling who accesses them, how and when (via check in and check out). It also gives you more ways of working with your assets in Cumulus, providing version retention and tracking, at-a-glance version information, and integration into the existing Cumulus environment. Additionally, Cumulus Vault enables Client users to access assets independent of platforms. Another Cumulus Vault feature enables you to set up Vault exclusive catalogs. All assets added to such a catalog are handed over to Vault and their asset storage location is Vault exclusively.

This chapter addresses the Administrator. It covers activating and administering the Vault Server as well as configuring Cumulus catalogs to be controlled by Cumulus Vault. Information on using Vault to check assets in and out as well as on managing asset versions are provided in the chapter “Using Vault”.