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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Creating and Managing Administrator User Accounts and Groups
Creating and Managing User Accounts
Creating and Managing User Accounts
This section contains the following topics:
• Overview for Creating an Account, page 1-2
• Working with Accounts, page 1-3
• Working with Passwords, page 1-8
• Working with Roles, page 1-9
• Working with Domains, page 1-14
• Working with User Groups, page 1-17
Overview for Creating an Account
Table 1-2 provides an overview of the steps you must complete to create a new roles-based administrator
account.
Table 1-1 Account Type Descriptions
Account Type Description
Roles-based account Allows you to create accounts that manage and configure specific WAAS services. For example, you
may want to delegate the configuration of application acceleration to a specific administrator. In this
case, you could create a roles-based account that only has access to the Acceleration pages in the
WAAS Central Manager GUI.
You can also create a roles-based account that only has access to the WAE Device Manager instead
of the WAAS Central Manager GUI. And you can create a role-based account that also is a local user
account.
You create roles-based accounts from the Admin menu in the WAAS Central Manager GUI.
Local account Provides CLI access to WAE devices and optionally allows users to access the WAE Device Manager
GUI. A user with this account type can log into the WAAS Central Manager but they have the access
rights assigned to the default account, which initially has access to no GUI functionality.
We recommend that you create a local account if there is an administrator that only needs CLI access
to WAE devices or to the WAE Device Manager GUI.
You create local accounts in the same way as roles-based accounts, but you check the Local User
check box when creating the account.
Table 1-2 Checklist for Creating a Roles-based Administrator Account
Task Additional Information and Instructions
1. Create a new account. Creates an account on the system with a specific username, password, and privilege
level. For more information, see the “Creating a New Account” section on
page 1-4.
2. Create a role for the new account. Creates a role that specifies the services that an account can configure in your
WAAS network. For more information, see the “Creating a New Role” section on
page 1-10. If you are using an external authentication server, you can define
matching user groups that automatically assign roles to users.