ManageEngine® SQLDBManager Plus


User Administration

 

User Administration

 

SQLDBManager Plus permits three types of user access to work with the product. The different roles are:

User

The system users have read only access to all components of the product. You will not have the privilege to access, configure or edit the different components of the product. To delete a user, you should have logged in as default Administrator.

Operator

The system operators have read only access to those components of the product that the administrator assigns to the operator. You will not have the privilege to access, configure or edit the different components of the product. If operator is part of a Monitor Group, then the restrictions will take effect only for the operator and not others.


Note:

Account Policy:

To enhance Web Client security, Account Policies can be configured. You can define the number of continuous failed login attempts to lock user account and Idle session timeout. You can enforce single user session and strong password rules.

Strong password rules

Note :

  • Password cannot be same/part of your Login name
  • Password length should not be less than 8 character
  • Password length should not be greater than 255 character
  • Password should contain atleast 1 numeric character
  • Password should contain atleast 1 special character
  • Password should contain both uppercase and lowercase character
  • Password should not be same as your last 4 password(s)

 

Administrator

The system administrators are allowed to perform all admin activities as explained in Performing Admin Activities. You also have the privilege to configure user administration as explained below.

 

SQLDBManager Plus allows the system administrators to configure any activity with ease. To create a new user access, follow the given steps:

  1. In Admin page, click User Administration under Global Configurations. This lists the User Profile(s) that consists of the User name and the role.

  2. To add a new user, click Add new. This opens the 'Configure User' screen.

  3. Specify a unique User name and password. The description and e-mail info are optional.

  4. Choose the role (User/Operator/Administrator).

  5. Click Create User to complete the task.

Note: The default user access of SQLDBManager Plus is admin (Administrator). All users log into SQLDBManager Plus as Admin users and are given all the administrative privileges to work with the tool.

 

AD Authentication and Capability to import users from Active Directory

 

Setting up of user accounts, passwords, and assigning privileges to different roles manually, while assuring security is a time-consuming task. We require a more convenient method to add a large number of users to SQLDBManager Plus.

 

Active Directory Authentication Module is implemented in order to ease the user administration in SQLDBManager Plus. Using Active Directory(AD) authentication module you can import users from Active Directory to SQLDBManager Plus. Active Directory authentication enables users to log in to SQLDBManager Plus if they have an account in an Active Directory domain.

 

Users imported from the Active Directory can login into SQLDBManager Plus using their Active Directory credentials. This removes the users' burden of remembering yet another username & password for SQLDBManager Plus alone.

 

Since Active Directory authentication is done in the Domain Controller all the account policy regulations of the company/domain is automatically inherited to SQLDBManager Plus credentials also.

 

How to Import Users from Active Directory

To import users from Active Directory, use the following steps:

  1. Click on the Admin tab.

  2. Under the SQLDBManager Plus Server Settings click User Administration to see a list of User Profiles.

  3. Click the Add New link under the list of user profiles to come to the New User page.

  4. Click on the new tab called Import Users from Active Directory.

  5. Select a domain name from the drop-down list.

You can select an already added domain from the drop-down list or add a new domain. You can also edit the existing Domain controller settings in the same manner.

 

Adding a New Domain

  1. Select the Add New Domain option from the Domain Name drop-down list.

  2. Enter the following details:

    Domain Name: Name of the domain from where the users need to be imported.
    Domain Controller: The hostname or the IP address of the DNS server for the domain.
    Username: Active directory username of the domain user in DOMAIN\username format
    Password: Active directory password of the domain user.
    Search Filter: To filter out search result you can use characters followed by * as well as the role criterion in LDAP search filter format. These search filters use one of the following formats <filter>=(<attribute><operator><value>) or (<operator><filter1><filter2>).

    For example: "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!cn=andy))"- All user objects but "andy".

  3. Click on the Fetch Users from AD button to import users from the active directory.

  4. When the list of existing users is displayed select the user(s) to be added, assign roles and click on Add Users to add the users.

  5. In the new Import Users tab from Active Directory pop-up window select the users that you wish to add from the drop-down list.

  6. Assign a role - Operator,User or Administrator to each of the users.

  7. Click on the Add User button to import the user to SQLDBManager Plus or click on Add Users And Configure Another to add more users.

You can edit User Profiles from the list of users.


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