HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Authorizations tab
Authorizations give users access to view and manage systems. An authorization is composed of
users, toolboxes, and discovered systems. When you first access the Authorizations tab, a table
appears listing all authorizations and includes the following information:
• User/User Group
This column includes all valid users and user groups. A user group appears in bold type.
Group-based users are not displayed in this table. However, they are listed in the authorizations
for users table and appear in italics.
• Toolbox
This column displays the toolboxes assigned to the user or user group for each authorization.
• System
This column displays the systems on which the user or user group has authorizations. A system
group appears in bold type.
• Auto
This column displays Auto if the authorization is set to automatically update when the collections
that the authorization is based upon are updated.
A system group is a group of systems based on a system collection that is used for authorizations.
Authorizations that use system groups are updated automatically when a change is made to the
system collection that the system group is based upon. For authorizations to be updated
automatically, the option, Do not track changes. If this collection changes, the authorization will
not change must not be selected.
You can view all authorizations, or you can view filtered authorizations for users, user groups,
toolboxes, system groups, and individual systems. Select the option from the Authorizations for
box, and then select the name from the Select name box.
The Authorizations tab provides the following options:
• Creating new authorizations
Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Authorizations, and then click New.
The New Authorizations section appears. This option is not available for group-based users.
Instead, create authorizations for the user group of the group-based user.
• Updating authorizations
Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Authorizations, select an authorization
using a system group based on a collection, and then click Update. The Update Authorizations
section appears.
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