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Chapter
5
User Account Management
In this chapter
• Users overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
• User accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
• Roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
• Areas of responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
• Password policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
• User profiles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Users overview
The Management application allows you to manage accounts of users who manage devices on the
network. When a user logs in to the Management application, the user name and password can be
authenticated and authorized by the local server or by a supported external server.
User accounts are assigned privileges, which you define within roles. Each privilege provides
access to a specific feature of the Management application. This enables you to maintain privileges
common to a group of administrators within a role, instead of in individual accounts.
You can group devices, access points, and their groups in areas of responsibilities (AORs), then
assign one or more AORs to a user’s privilege. When you assign a user an AOR, that user will be
able to manage only the devices in that AOR. Devices in a user’s AOR are the only devices that user
sees in device trees and on the Dashboard tab. You can place selected devices, device groups, port
groups, access points, access point groups, and access point port groups in an AOR.
Users who create a device group are the only users who can manage the devices in that group.
Other users may view the groups, but do not have the ability to add, delete, or modify the groups.
Configuration requirements
To administer accounts on the Management application server, you must have an administrative
login on the platform on which the Management application is running. Use the “Administrator”
login to create other logins with administrative permissions.
Viewing configured users
To view configured users, complete the following steps.
1. Select Server > Users.
The Users dialog box displays.
2. Click the Users tab, if necessary.