User guide

Chapter 5: Managing User Accounts 163
3. Click Close when you are finished reviewing the access rights. The User Accounts window
will open.
To display a user’s access rights to a managed appliance:
1. In a User Accounts window, click on a username. Name will automatically be selected in the
side navigation bar and the User Name window will open.
2. Click Access Rights in the side navigation bar and then click Appliances. The Appliance
Access Rights window will open:
• Black check mark - the user has the right to perform the corresponding action.
• Grey check mark - a group to which the user belongs has the right to perform the
corresponding action.
• No check mark - the indicated action may not be performed because access rights have not
been specified on the managed appliance for the user or group to which the user belongs.
3. Click Close when you are finished reviewing the access rights. The User Accounts window
will open.
Managing User Groups
Users that have been added to the DSView software system may be added to the following two
types of user groups:
• Built-In - The DSView management software is delivered with six predefined user groups:
Appliance Administrators, Auditors, DSView software administrators, Everyone, User
Administrators and Users. All users are automatically included in the Everyone user group
when they are added to the DSView software system. Users may be added to any of the other
user groups. The privileges that a user has to perform tasks on the DSView software system is
dependent on the built-in user group to which the user is a member. See Built-in User Groups
on page 22 for more information.
• User-defined - You may also define your own custom groups, based on any criteria you wish.
For example, you may want to define groups based on user administrators with read-only
access, software developers at a specific location, global network infrastructure personnel
based on job title and so on.
Built-in user groups appear in the User Groups - Built-in window and user-defined user groups
appear in the User Groups - User Defined window. By default, the Preemption Level column will
appear in the windows and display the preemption level of each user group. The views of the
windows may be customized by clicking the Customize button to display the following columns:
• Authentication Server - Displays the authentication server assigned to the user. See Managing
Authentication Services on page 58 for more information.
• Role - The role of a user-defined user group, which may be None, User, Auditor, Appliance
Administrator, User Administrator or DSView software administrator. The role column for a
built-in user group or a user-defined user group with a role of None will be empty.
• Type - The type of user group, which will be Built-in or User Defined.