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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Administer Users
Your user ID and the user groups you are a member of are profiled with a set of permissions that determines which Tivoli Enterprise Portal features you are authorized to see and use, a list of monitored applications you are authorized to see, and a list of Navigator views (and the highest level within a view) you can access.
Clicking Administer Users opens the Administer Users window. This is a two-paned window with Users and User Groups tabs in the top frame, and several tabs in the bottom frame. This arrangement enables the administrator to manage user profiles by individual user, by user groups, or a combination of the two. You might create a user profile, then copy the profile for each additional user and change settings as needed (such as, for the Action feature, granting View permission to one user and granting Modify permission to a different user). Or you might create a user group with a particular profile and add users to the group. Then you can modify the permissions once for a group and apply to all members automatically.
When you modify the permissions or the list of monitored applications for a Tivoli Enterprise Portal user or user group, the authorization change does not take effect until the user logs out of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client and then logs back in. If Tivoli Enterprise Portal permissions are being used to authorize monitored resources for dashboard users, the authorization changes also do not take effect until the user logs out of Dashboard Application Services Hub and logs back in.
- Users and User Groups
The Users and User Groups tabs list the user IDs and the user groups that are stored on the portal server.
- Permissions
You can authorize the same set of functional permissions multiple users, user group or each user ID at one time.
- Applications
Your user ID is set so you can see some or all the application types being monitored. For example, one user might be able to see only mainframe applications, while another can see only middleware, and another sees all applications.
- Navigator views
When a Navigator view is created, only the author is able to see the view, but it is available for the administrator to assign to users. An assigned Navigator view means the user can open it. For each assigned view, the user can be restricted to see only a certain branch rather than the entire hierarchy.
- Member Of and Members
When you select a user or user group from the list, the last tab on the bottom set of tabs reads either Member Of or Members (reflecting the selection of a User or User Group). Assignment of users to groups can be done in either tab.
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Use Tivoli Enterprise Portal user authorizationRelated tasks:
Add a user ID
Edit a user ID