User Administration

The Users tab on the Configuration Manager window allows you to view and edit the user and groups list on a specific Info Server. Users are administered on a per Info Server basis. If multiple Info Servers are in use, changes on one Info Server do not affect other Info Servers.

Starting User Administration

To start user administration, click on the Configuration icon on the Conductor main window and then select the Users tab on the Configuration Manager window. You must have super user privileges, for example, be the root user, to use this tool.

Figure 4-1 shows the Users tab.

Figure 4-1: Configuration Manager Window - Users Tab

When the Users tab is selected, the Configuration Manager window toolbar and menu bar change to display the user administration options.

The Users tab lists all users known to the Info Server to which you are logged in. The Users tab shows the following information about each user:

The user name
The full name
The User ID
The user type
The password type
The ISQL access
The restriction filter

Changing the User List Display

To resize the columns in the Users tab:

1. Click and hold down the mouse button on a column divider.

2. Drag the mouse to change the width of the column.

The View menu allows you to control the user types that are displayed on the Users tab. There are four user types:

Normal User
Administrator
Super User
`Nobody' User

To control which user types are displayed on the Users tab, select Show from the View menu and then click on the user type that you want to display or exclude from the display. A square next to a user type indicates that type will be displayed. If a type is not displayed, click on the user type to redisplay users of that type.

To update the user list display, select Refresh Users from the View menu.

Creating and Editing Users

To add a new user, do one of the following:

Select New from the User menu.
Click on the New User button:

The New User window appears.

To change the attributes for an existing user, do one of the following:

Select Edit from the User menu.
Click on the Edit User button:

The Edit User window appears.

You add details to create a new user, or edit the details to change them for an existing user. When you are editing an existing user, the User Name and User ID fields appear in gray and you cannot modify them.

Figure 4-2 shows an example of a User window.

Figure 4-2: User Window

User Name

Enter the user name in the User Name field. When you are editing an existing user, this field is read-only and the user name is displayed in gray.

By default, user names are restricted to 64 characters. User names can include spaces.

Full Name

Enter or edit the full name of the user in the Full Name field.

User ID

Enter or edit the user identifier number in the User ID field. The Users tab of the Configuration Manager window displays these numbers in the UID column.

You can enter any number not already assigned to a user in this field. The number can conveniently be set to the UNIX user identifier.

Fill In

If the user name matches a UNIX user name, you can click the Fill In button to copy the UNIX system information for the user automatically to the Full Name and User ID fields.

Conversion

Leave the Conversion box checked unless you are sure of what you are doing. When Conversion is checked, a conversion entity is added to the internal conversions table when you create a user. This converts the user's UID to the user's name in the event list. You can edit this name displayed using the Conversions tab of the Configuration Manager window, if required. For more information, see the "Conversion" section.

Use System Password

Select this option if you want the users to have a Cisco Info Center password that is the same as their UNIX password. Cisco Info Center accepts UNIX passwords provided by the Network Information name Service (NIS).

Password

If required, enter the user's password in the Password field and retype it in the Verify field. The password characters appear as asterisks as you type. The password is optional.

Security Level

Select one of the three levels of access to the Cisco Info Center system:

Normal users can use all the desktop tools except the objective view builder, the configuration tool, the Server Editor window and the properties editor.

: Normal users can only work with alerts that have been assigned to them or their group and those that are assigned to the Nobody user.

Administrator users can use all the tools in the Configuration Manager window except for the Properties, Users and Automations tabs.

: Administrator users can work with any alerts owned by a Normal user or the Nobody user, and alerts assigned to them or their group.

The Super User can use all the desktop tools. A Super User can manipulate any alert, no matter who owns it.

Profile

The Restricted Events option specifies which alerts the user is not allowed to see. Check the Restricted Events box to activate the text frame.

Type SQL commands in the text frame to create the restriction filter. Alternatively, to use the filter builder, click on the Filter button:

Allow ISQL

Check the Allow ISQL Access box if the user is to be allowed to login to the Info Server using the SQL Interactive Interface. For details on the SQL Interactive Interface, see the "Cisco Info Server Interactive Commands" section.

Deleting Users

To delete a user, do one of the following:

Select the user, and then select Delete from the User menu.
Right click on a user, and then select Delete from the popup menu.
Select the user, and then click on the Delete User button:

The user is deleted.

Adding a User to a Group

To add a user to a group, complete these steps.

Step 1 Select a user.

Step 2 Select Add to Group from the User menu.

A popup list appears showing the existing user groups.

Step 3 Select a user group.

For details on user groups see the "Groups" section.

The user is added to the specified group???

System Users

To display a list of users known to the system, click the System Users button on the User Administration window. The System User List window appears.

Figure 4-3 shows an example System User List window.

Figure 4-3: System Users

The list displays the following information for all known users:

User Name
Full Name
UID (User Identifier)
GID (Group Identifier)

This list can be used for reference or as a source of names. The menu option UserAdd User copies the selected users to the user list display.

Groups

The Groups window displays all the groups known to the Info Server to which you are logged in.

To open the Groups window, do one of the following while the Users tab is selected:

Select Edit Groups from the User menu.
Click on the Groups button:

The Groups window displays the following information:

the defined groups
the user names associated with each group
the full name of each user
the user identifier

Figure 4-4 shows an example of a Groups window.

Figure 4-4: Group s Window

Creating and Renaming Groups

To add a new group, do one of the following:

Select New from the Group menu.
Click on the New Group button:.

The New Group window appears, shown in Figure 4-5.

Figure 4-5: New Group Window

Edit the following fields in the New Group window.

Enter the name of the new group in the Name field.
Enter a group ID in the Group ID field.

Two groups cannot have the same group ID. The group ID appears in parenthesis to the right of the group name in the Groups window.

To rename an existing group, do one of the following:

Select Edit from the Group menu.
Click on the Edit Group button:

The Edit Group window appears. The Edit Group window is identical to the New Group window, except that the Group ID field is read-only and displayed in gray.

Deleting Groups

To delete a selected group, do one of the following:

Select Delete from the Group menu.
Click on the Delete Group button:

The group is removed from the Group window.

Adding Users to a Group

You add users to a group from the Users tab. For full details see the "Adding a User to a Group" section.

Removing Users

To remove a selected user from a group, do one of the following:

Select Delete Member from the Group menu.
Click on the Delete Member button:

The user is removed from the group and no longer appears under the group in the Group window.

Popup Menu

Popup menus are available on users and groups. Select the user or group by clicking with the left mouse button and then open the popup menu by clicking the right button.

The commands on the popup menus are the same as those available on the User menu in the Users tab, for users, and on the Group menu in the User Groups window, for groups.

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