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Managing Admin Groups and Admin Roles

After you create an admin group or an admin role, you can view, modify, and delete it.

Modifying Admin Groups and Roles

To modify an admin group:

  1. From the Administration tab, select the Administrators tab -> Groups tab -> admin_group checkbox, and then click the Edit icon.
  2. The Admin Group editor provides the following tabs from which you can modify data:
    • General: You can modify the following data.
      • Name: Modify the name of the admin group.
      • Comment: Enter useful information about the group, such as location or department.
      • Disable: Select this to retain an inactivated profile for this admin group in the configuration. For example, you may want to define a profile for recently hired administrators who have not yet started work. Then when they do start, you simply need to clear this checkbox to activate the profile.
    • Roles: Modify the data as described in /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180917
  3. Save the configuration.

Deleting Admin Groups and Roles

You can remove any admin group as long as it is not your own admin group or the last admin group. You can also delete any admin role. The appliance puts the deleted roles in the Recycle Bin, if enabled.
To delete an admin group:

  1. From the Administration tab, select the Administrators tab -> Groups tab -> admin_group checkbox, and then click the Delete icon.
  2. In the Delete Confirmation dialog box, click Yes. To delete an admin role:
  3. From the Administration tab, select the Administrators tab -> Roles tab -> admin_role checkbox, and then click the Delete icon.
  4. In the Delete Confirmation dialog box, click Yes.

Viewing Admin Groups

You can view the list of admin groups that are currently in the Master Grid. To view admin groups, from the Administration tab, select the Administrators tab -> Groups tab.
Multi-Grid Manager displays the following information:

  • Name: The name of the admin group.
  • Superuser: Indicates whether the admin accounts that you assign to this group have full authority to view and configure all types of data. The value can be Yes or No.
  • Comment: The information about the admin group.

You can select the additional fields, Disabled and Site, for display. You can also do the following:

  • Sort the data in ascending or descending order by column.
  • Use filters and the Goto function to narrow down the list. With the autocomplete feature, you can just enter the first few characters of an object name in the Goto field and select the object from the possible matches.
  • Create a quick filter to save frequently used filter criteria. For information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180172.
  • Modify some of the data in the table. Double click a row of data, and either edit the data in the field or select an item from a drop-down list. Note that some fields are read-only. For more information about this feature, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180134.
  • Print or export the data.

Viewing Admin Roles

You can view the list of admin roles that are currently in the Master Grid. To view admin roles, from the Administration tab, select the Administrators tab -> Roles tab.
Multi-Grid Manager displays the following information:

  • Name: The name of the admin role.
  • System: Indicates whether the admin role is system defined or not. The value can be Yes or No.
  • Comment: The information about the admin role.

You can select the additional fields, Disabled and Site, for display. You can also do the following:

  • Sort the data in ascending or descending order by column.
  • Modify some of the data in the table. Double click a row of data, and either edit the data in the field or select an item from a drop-down list. Note that some fields are read-only. For more information about this feature, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180134.
  • Use filters and the Goto function to narrow down the list. With the autocomplete feature, you can just enter the first few characters of an object name in the Goto field and select the object from the possible matches.
  • Create a quick filter to save frequently used filter criteria. For information, see /wiki/spaces/mgmadminguide/pages/911180172.
  • Print or export the data.

Viewing Admin Group Assignments

After you define permissions for an admin role, you can assign it to multiple admin groups. You can view the list of admin groups to which an admin role is assigned, as follows:

  1. From the Administration tab, select the Administrators tab -> Roles tab -> admin_group checkbox, and then click the Edit icon.
  2. In the Role editor, select the Admin Groups tab.
    Multi-Grid Manager displays the list of admin groups to which the role is assigned.