Brocade Communications Systems IP250 user manual User Account Management, Users overview

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In this chapter

•Users overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

•User accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

•Roles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

•Areas of responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

•Password policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

•Authentication Server Groups on the Management server . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

•User profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Users overview

The Management application allows you to manage accounts of users who manage devices on the network. When a user logs in to the Management application, the user name and password can be authenticated and authorized by the local server or by a supported external server.

User accounts are assigned privileges, which you define within roles. Each privilege provides access to a specific feature of the Management application. This enables you to maintain privileges common to a group of administrators within a role, instead of in individual accounts.

You can group devices, access points, and their groups in areas of responsibilities (AORs), then assign one or more AORs to a user’s privilege. When you assign a user an AOR, that user will be able to manage only the devices in that AOR. Devices in a user’s AOR are the only devices that user sees in device trees and on the Dashboard tab. You can place selected devices, device groups, port groups, access points, access point groups, and access point port groups in an AOR.

Users who create a device group are the only users who can manage the devices in that group. Other users may view the groups, but do not have the ability to add, delete, or modify the groups.

Configuration requirements

To administer accounts on the Management application server, you must have an administrative login on the platform on which the Management application is running. Use the “Administrator” login to create other logins with administrative permissions.

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