User guide

DEFINITY Performance Management User Guide, Release 2.0, 585-229-808
2 NMS Submap Administration
Set Auto-Discovery Passwords
Issue 1
November 1998
Page 36
Set Auto-Discovery Passwords
The default installation setting for Fault Management grants access to
Auto-Discovery for all users. Users who have access to Auto-Discovery can
modify NMS read/write submaps.
If you wish to restrict Auto-Discovery access, you must assign Auto-Discovery
passwords. Anyone who has root level access can restrict individual or group
access to Auto-Discovery.
Procedure To set auto-discovery passwords, do the following:
1 To administer Auto-Discovery passwords, type the following and press
Return:
/opt/OV/OneVision/DG3Poll/AD_Passwds
Result: The system displays the Auto-Discovery passwords administration
file.
2 In the first field, type one of the following options in upper case and press the
Spacebar:
• L for an individual user
• G for groups of users
3 In the second field, type one of the following in lower case and press Return:
• individual [
unix login id]
• group [
unix group id]
Result: The system designates user access to Auto-Discovery.