Configuring user roles

As an administrator, you can configure an operator's view of the environment to focus on specific assigned tasks and responsibilities. By defining roles for specified users, you control the operator's view of your enterprise and the range of activities which that user has permission to perform. By assigning users to well-defined, specific roles, you can distribute monitoring and maintenance tasks across a group of individuals with their own particular areas of expertise and experience and customize each operator's console view.

User roles can include both administrative and operator tasks and allow operators to focus on their primary tasks without the distraction of information that is not relevant to their assigned responsibilities. Only those items for which the operator has permissions are visible in that operator's console view.

You can configure roles in two ways in HPOM:

• Preconfigured user roles: HPOM provides a number of preconfigured user roles which you can use as they are or edit to change tasks and permissions allowed for specified users. The list of preconfigured roles appears when you open the User Roles configuration editor. To edit, click Properties and edit the information.
• Customized user roles: To create your own customized user roles, open the User Roles configuration editor and click New to open the New User Role dialog box. Specify the user or users for this role and define the tasks and permissions associated with it, then save your changes.

To specify permission for:

• Policies and Packages: Specify which users can read, deploy, edit, or delete policies and packages. You might give one user role permission to view policies and packages and give another user role permission to edit and delete policies or packages. You can specify any combination of allowable actions.
• Services, Nodes, and Tools: Specify which services, nodes, and tools will be available to specific user roles. Only those services, nodes, and tools will be visible in the console for users assigned to that user role. You can specify any combination of services, nodes, and tools.
• Messages: Specify which message groups will be available to operators. This setting controls which messages are visible and which actions operators can perform on a selected message. You can also specify whether users can view messages that are not in assigned message groups. Message operations for which you can set permissions include:
  • View
  • Own/Disown
  • Acknowledge/Unacknowledge
  • Change severity
  • Change text
  • Assign
  • Relaunch automatic command
  • Launch operator-initiated command
• Users: Select users or groups of users from the HP-OVE-OPERATORS local group to add to this role. You can also delete users from this user role.

Related Topics:

• Assigning user roles
• Configure a new user role