Black Box ET1000A, ET0010A Understanding Roles, EncrypTight User Types, Etep Appliance Roles

Understanding Roles

Table 22 Appliance status indicators

Status

Indicator Description

Appliance reboot required.

Reload policies required.

Status unknown. The appliance is not responding to ETEMS’s attempts to communicate with it or ETEMS hasn’t yet queried the appliance status.

Appliance unmanageable due to an incompatible hardware/software combination or run- time exception error.

The appliance is in an error state.

Understanding Roles

EncrypTight and the EncrypTight appliances each have unique roles that control different aspects of the product. The following sections describe the roles and how they differ:

●“EncrypTight User Types” on page 91

●“ETEP Appliance Roles” on page 91

EncrypTight User Types

EncrypTight has two user types: administrator and user. The EncrypTight administrator controls access to the EncrypTight application; it does not control access to the EncrypTight appliances. The EncrypTight administrator can create, modify, and delete other users and passwords, while the user can change only its own password.

Related topics:

●“Managing EncrypTight Users” on page 61

●“ETEP Appliance Roles” on page 91

ETEP Appliance Roles

Roles on the appliance are associated with a set of privileges and tasks that a user is able to perform on the appliance, such as assigning passwords, defining configuration settings, or creating polices.

User management is performed using ETEMS or the CLI commands. Roles can be associated with specific user names and passwords. This allows the ETEP to track which user performed an action on the appliance as opposed to simply the role that performed the action. Each role can be associated with more than one user name.

ETEPs have two roles: Administrator and Ops.

●The Administrator has access to all of the appliance functionality. This includes assigning roles, user names and passwords to all appliance users, defining appliance configurations, and defining and

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