HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) enables you to configure authorizations for specific users or user
groups. Authorizations give the user access to view and manage systems. Each authorization specifies a
user or user group, a toolbox, and a system or system group. The specific set of tools that can be run on a
system that is specified in the assigned toolbox.
It is important that you plan which systems each user will manage manage and which specific set of tools
each user is authorized to execute on managed systems. A user with no toolbox authorizations on a particular
system cannot view or manage that system.
Authorizations are cumulative. If a user is authorized for Toolbox1 and Toolbox2 on the same system, the
user is authorized for all tools in both Toolbox1 and Toolbox2 on that system. Similarly, a user authorized
for the All Tools toolbox on a system requires no other toolbox authorizations on that system because the
All Tools toolbox always includes all tools.
See the following guidelines for setting up user names and authorizations in the following sections:
• “Configuring automatic discovery”
• “Creating new users”
• “Creating new user groups”
• “Creating new toolboxes”
• “Creating new authorizations”
Users authorization templates
The Users and Authorizations tabs offer the following options:
• Add, edit, and delete users and user groups, and view and print user reports. Select
Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Users.
• Add, edit, and delete toolboxes, and view and print toolbox reports. Select Options→Security→Users
and Authorizations→Toolboxes.
• Add, update, and delete authorizations, and view and print authorization reports. Select
Options→Security→Users and Authorizations→Authorizations.
NOTE: By default, users created in HP SIM can access HP Storage Essentials with limited read privileges.
You can change the permission settings by following the instructions and links on the Users, Toolboxes,
and Authorizations tabs.
Related procedures
• Creating new users
• Creating new user groups
• Creating new toolboxes
• Creating new authorizations
• Editing user accounts and user groups
• Editing toolboxes
• Deleting user accounts and user groups
• Deleting toolboxes
• Deleting authorizations
• User and user group reports
• Toolbox report
• Authorizations report
Related topics
• Users and user groups
• Toolboxes
• Authorizations
136 Users and authorizations