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Role-Based Security and its Implementation

Role-Based Access Control Implementation in OpenManage

Essentials

After you have verified that the OpenManage Essentials groups have been created, on a Windows

machine, add user(s) to the OpenManage Essentials groups. Add user(s) to OmeAdministrators first,

later to OmePowerUsers and then to OmeUsers. You must be logged in as an Administrator to perform

this procedure. To add users, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to Local Users and Groups -> Groups.

2. Right-click OmeAdministrators and select Add to Group.

3. In the Properties window, click Add.

4. In the Select Users window, enter the user name.

5. Click Check Names and click OK. The user name appears in the Members list in the Properties

window.

6. Click OK.

Note: For details on adding a Windows user account to a group, refer to:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Add-a-user-account-to-a-group

Note: The users you add must also belong to the built-in local Administrator group.

permissions to perform all of the OpenManage Essentials operations.

Similarly, add users to the OmePowerUser and OmeUsers group and confirm that these users have

restricted privileges and can do read-only operations.

Figure 2. Adding users to a group