Adding and editing user accounts

Use the Add User or Edit User dialog to create a new user account or edit an existing user account.

When creating or editing a user account you can:

• Determine the authentication method for the user account.
• Select the display language to be used for the user account.
• Set and confirm the password when using internal authentication.
• Select the home device group.
• Set user rights.

You must have the Manage User right to add or edit a user account.

Note: You do not need to add users that will be authenticating through an Active Directory server. When a user logs in to WhatsUp Gold using their Windows domain credentials for the first time, a user account will be created for that user. They will be added to the group which was mapped to which the AD group that the user account is a member.

To create or edit a user account:

1. Type the name of the user account in User name.
2. Select the Authentication type.

   Note: Select Internal for internal authentication using a password entered on this dialog. Select LDAP for remote authentication using an LDAP server (other than an Active Directory server) configured on the LDAP credentials dialog. When you select LDAP, the Internal password and Confirm password boxes are deactivated.

   Note: When a user is being edited that has authenticated through an Active Directory server, the Authentication type for that user will appear as Active Directory.

3. Select the Language you want the user interface to display for this user account.
4. If your Authentication type is Internal, type and confirm the password to be used with this user account.
5. Select the Home device group. This determines the device group that will be used to provide information for monitoring and dashboard reports.
6. Select the user groups to which you want the user account to be a member. These groups are listed in Member of. Groups must be added prior to adding a user to a group. For more information on adding user groups, see Adding and Editing user groups.

   Note: When you add a user account to a group it will inherit all of the rights assigned to that group.

   Tip: Select Show rights inherited from group membership + user rights to show the user rights the user will inherit from membership in the groups selected in the Member of box. The first column of check boxes in the User Rights list indicate the user rights acquired through group membership.

7. Select the User rights that you want to grant to the user account. For more information, see About User Rights.

   Tip: You can click Check all to select all of the available user rights.

   Note: If you grant the Manage Users right, the user account will acquire all user rights.

8. Click OK. The user account is added to the user account list on the Manage Users dialog.

See Also Managing users and groups Managing Users About user rights Adding and editing user groups About device group access rights