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Cisco Media Gateway Manager 5.0 User Guide
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Chapter 2 Basic Concepts
What Are the General Features of Cisco MGM?
You can:
• Define the network partitions from the associated list of nodes.
• Define, modify, and view the areas within your network.
• Manage only the areas under your security profile.
• Manage connections that originate and terminate within the assigned area(s). The domain can
include multiple areas.
2.3.5.4 User Management and Profiles
Cisco MGM user management includes the ability to:
• Manage predefined default user profiles with different access privileges, also known as network
partitioning, which allows you to define user types and levels of access to the network. The default
user types are:
– SuperUser—Users who have access to all operations associated with the Cisco MGM server and
client.
– SysAdmin—System administrators who manage Cisco MGM access. They can perform limited
tasks associated with the Cisco MGM server and client. This privilege is primarily used as the
main profile when Cisco MGM has been initially installed.
– NetworkAdmin—Typically, network operations center (NOC) supervisors who perform daily
network surveillance, provisioning, and PM activities on any group or NE.
– Provisioner—Users who perform daily network surveillance, provisioning, and PM activities
on specific NEs. Each Provisioner can have only one active session. Provisioners cannot access
administrative information.
– Operator—Users who perform daily network surveillance and PM activities on specific NEs.
Each Operator can have only one active session. Operators cannot access administrative
information.
• Create, delete, modify, and duplicate custom user profiles with certain privileges. Custom user
profiles are grouped into categories and each category has a set of operations.
• Create, delete, or modify Cisco MGM users; lock or unlock user accounts; view logged-in users;
and end active user sessions.
• Regulate user logins, including password aging, number of failed login attempts before an account
lockout, login disable period, lockout time, and logout time.
• Configure the username and password used by the Cisco MGM server and Cisco MGM
GateWay/CORBA to access NEs.
• View, add, modify, and delete NE user accounts on one or more NEs.
Note For detailed information about user management, see Chapter 8, “Managing Security.”
2.3.5.4.1 Configuring Cisco MGM User Access
You can configure user access by using the Administration menu, which provides controlled access
(network partitioning) to multiple users of Cisco MGM, based on the user’s UNIX user-ID and
password. The Administration menu is launched from the Domain Explorer window.