Lesson 3: Managing User Access and Security (Cache Administrators only)
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 2 Objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to: –Create a User –Query User Access and Permissions by: Querying User Groups Querying Permissions for User Groups Querying Menu Groups
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 3 What is a User? - A person with authorized access to ICBS. - Users are created by the Cache System Admin - Users are assigned to Group Subscriptions depending on their responsibilities and job duties.
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 4 Controlling User Access You can control users access to actions and views provided by the organization to which they belong to User permissions ensure that users access the appropriate information for carrying out their tasks User access and permissions can be defined using: –User Groups User group permissions are maintained by the NWCG Cache System Admin Changes to permissions are Enterprise wide
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 5 User Group A collection of users performing a similar task
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 6 Administering User Group Permissions Users can be allowed or disallowed permissions for an entire module, on a screen-by-screen or function-by- function basis.
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 7 Creating Users - Users are created at the Cache - Creating and Managing User access is done through the Configurator by the Cache System Admin role. Applications > Platform Security > Users
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 8 Creating a New User Click on person with the green plus to create a new user.
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Creating a New User cont’
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 10 Assigning Users to Groups Highlight the group subscription and click on the
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 11 Lesson 3: Summary In this lesson, you should have learned that: –A user is a person or an entity with authorized access to ICBS –Users are created through the Configurator –Control of users access to the actions and views is managed at the NWCG System Admin level –Menu groups User groups –A Menu Group defines the screen structure that is displayed to the user –User groups are used to define access permissions, to individual screens and actions in the UI, for all users in that group
Copyright 2002 Sterling Commerce, Inc. All rights reserved. 12 Questions?