User's Guide

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Guest - This user profile is used to grant some minimum set of permissions to users to view some of
the functional areas within this AirDefense instance.
Help Desk - This user profile is used to grant certain permissions to users that act as help desk for
resolving issues with this instance of AirDefense.
Operation Center - This user profile provides higher access than Help Desk users and is generally
granted to a networks operation center user to manage this AirDefense instance from a remote
location.
Important
Please note that the user profiles that are marked as Default in the Profile Type field are
created by the AirDefense system and cannot be edited or deleted. You can use these default
profiles as a template to create your customized user profiles.
User Profiles are managed from the User Management & Configuration screen. In the User
Management & Configuration screen, select the User Profile button. The User Management &
Configuration screen displays a list of all the user profiles configured for this AirDefense instance.
For each user profile, the following information is displayed.
Field Description
Profile Name The name of this user profile.
Profile Type The profile type. For a profile created by the AirDefense system, this
field displays Default. For all user created profiles, this field
displays Custom.
Usages The number of times this profiles was assigned to user accounts
valid for this AirDefense instance.
Profile Since The time stamp when this user profile was created. This is only
shown for profiles that are created by users and are marked as
Custom in the Profile Type field.
Action The actions that can be performed on this user profile. You can use
the icon to edit this user profile or use the icon to delete
this user profile. These actions are not enabled for profiles that are
marked as Default in the Profile Type field.
Configuration User Profile Management
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