Users Guide

Managing Users and Permissions | Getting Started
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Managing Users and Permissions
Manage users and permissions by performing the following tasks:
•
Adding Users and Connecting them to Roles
• Adding and Configuring User Roles/Permissions
• Adding LDAP Users
• Creating an LDAP Admin User
Adding Users and Connecting them to Roles
When you add a new user, that user may not appear immediately. You can speed up the user’s
appearance by using control panel’s
Server > Server Administration Resource panel. Click Reindex
all search indexes.
Add Users with the following steps:
1 Click Go to > Control Panel and navigate to Portal > Users and Organizations.
2 Click the Add > User menu item at the top of the Users screen.
3 Enter the details of the new user. If you are editing an existing user, more fields appear. Screen
Name,
and Email Address are required . Optionally, you can enter Name, Job Title , and so on.
NOTE:
Make sure you specify a Password when you add a user. This is not optional.
4
After you click Save notice that the right panel expands to include additional information.
The first time users log in, the application prompts them for a security question. E-mail for
password reminders/resets requires setting up the fields in Control Panel > Server
Administration > Mail, not the
SMTP Configuration which is for OpenManage Network
Manager-originated e-mails. See
Resetting a Password on page 103
Also: When you make a multitenant site, OpenManage Network Manager automatically
assigns the site prefix you select to the admin user it creates in the Site Management Editor. If
you enter “Admin” as that user, and the prefix is DS-, then that user must log in as “DS-
Admin.” When you or the tenant site admin create tenant site users manually in control
panel, you must manually add that prefix too when creating the user and when logging in as
that user.
5 Notice that if you are editing an existing user, or creating a new one, you can use the links on
the right to configure connections with
Roles. Roles, in particular, configure the OpenManage
Network Manager functional permissions for that user. For example the
Operators role’s
capabilities are typically more limited than
Administrators . See Adding and Configuring
User Roles/Permissions
on page 67.
6 Click Save again, and the user you just configured should appear listed in the Users screen
when you select
View > All Users .
7 After you have configured roles as described in Adding and Configuring User Roles/
Permissions
on page 67, return to the Users and Organizations screen, edit the User, and click
the
Roles link to associate the User with the Role(s) you have configured.
The most dramatic evidence of permission changes appears when you first remove
Default
User Roles — Power User
from your system in Portal > Portal Settings > Users > Default
User Associations (check
Apply to Existing Users if you have already configured your user). If