Creating Admin and User Accounts

Effective use of NetMRI requires an efficient and logical plan for user accounts. User account administration is a straightforward, but fundamentally important part of a NetMRI rollout.

The two administrative concepts that are involved for NetMRI users include the user accounts themselves, and each account's associated Role.

You can define and authenticate your admin users remotely, where all users and their accounts are authenticated and authorized for their roles and privileges through an external server such as RADIUS or LDAP. This chapter describes how to set up local authentication services in NetMRI. For remote configurations, see NetMRI User Authentication and Authorization. You can also define and authenticate all of your admin users locally, where all user accounts and their assigned roles and privileges are defined in the NetMRI system.