To define user administration functions, click the Settings icon > User Admin section and then complete the following:
Create, edit, and delete user accounts. Each user account is assigned one or more Device Groups over which they have some administrative functions.
Define two primary types of users: local users and remote users.
Local users have their entire login credentials, user Roles, and device group permissions defined locally on the NetMRI appliance.
Remote users have Roles assignments and device group permissions defined in Authentication Service Properties, and those assignments and permissions are granted remotely through an external service.x
Deice groups are a NetMRI organizational unit that gathers devices in related groups—routers in a Routers group, Ethernet switches in a Switches group, and so on. For related information on device groups, see Devices and Interfaces.
Create, edit, and delete user Roles. You assign Roles to each individual user account and define the privileges and tasks, and specific networks and network devices on which the NetMRI user can operate. A user account is ineffective without an assigned Role. A user account can use one or more Roles.
Each Role is comprised of a set of access Privileges, which are the types of tasks that the user can carry out in their assigned Role.
Review the Audit Log. The Audit Log provides records of all actions taken by all NetMRI users, showing the timestamp, event type, and associated descriptive messages.
Several advanced User Administration settings are located in the Advanced Settings section. For more information, see Advanced User Administration Settings.
User administration provides support from external authentication servers. Because NetMRI supports both external authentication and authorization features through remote groups, mirroring the Roles and Privileges provided in local NetMRI user provisioning, you can leverage remote AAA server configurations (from TACACS+, LDAP, Active Directory, and RADIUS) without having to directly provision significant numbers of users on NetMRI.