HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Users and user groups
Administering users involves adding, editing, deleting, and reporting. After you have added a user or user
group, you can assign predefined authorizations from the Authorizations tab.
Users and user groups must exist in the operating system. For Microsof Windows ®, this includes Active
Directory. When a user group is configured in HP SIM, any user that is a member of the user group in the
operating system can sign-in to HP SIM without having to be configured as a user in HP SIM. The user can
subsequently create tasks and run tools based on the user group's authorizations and configuration rights
as configured in HP SIM.
The Users tab displays a table with the following information:
• User/User Group This column includes all users and user groups. A user group appears in bold type,
while group-based user accounts (members of a configured user group) appear in italics.
• Configuration CMS Security This column indicates if the user has been given the right to configure
CMS security. This option is set when you select or clear the User can configure CMS security access
such as creating, modifying or removing other users checkbox when creating or editing users.
The column displays either Yes or No.
• Pager Configured This column indicates if the user has a pager configured (Yes or No.) and is blank
for user groups.
• IP Sign-In Restrictions This column indicates if there are any IP restrictions applied to the user or user
group.
• Full Name This column displays the full name of the user or group if this information was entered
during the creation of the user or user group.
The Users tab provides the following options:
• Create new users. Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users, and then click
New. The New User section appears.
• Create new user groups. Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users, and then
click New Group. The New User Group section appears.
• Edit existing users or user groups. Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users,
and then select a user or user group. Click Edit. The Edit User or Edit User Group section appears.
You can edit group-based (in italics) users to convert them to individually configured users.
• Delete users or user groups. Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users, and
then select users or user groups. Click Delete. A confirmation box appears. to delete the users or user
groups, click OK, or to cancel the deletion, click Cancel.
• View and print user reports. Select Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users, and
then click Report. The Users Report window appears. To print the report, select File→Print.
NOTE: To sort the information in ascending or descending order, click the appropriate column
heading. The column heading that includes the arrow is the column by which the list is sorted. If the
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