Password Manager Pro provides the option to maintain resource groups in hierarchical structure providing a tree view. For example, assume that your organization contains some departments/sections in the following hierarchy. Resource Groups pertaining to the departments could be arranged in the following order:
That means, you can group the resources belonging to the respective sections and create sub-groups as required. From the "Home" tab of PMP web-interface, you can view the hierarchical structure of the resource groups in tree form. You can also navigate to any desired group or sub-group directly and view the resources and passwords within.
Important Note:
Every administrator and password administrator can create his/her own tree with the resource groups they own and manage.
When you create a nested resource group, by default,
the name of the root node of the tree will have your login name. For example,
if you are logging into PMP as "admin", the name of the root
node will be "admin's Group". If you want to have a different
name for the root node, you can edit it as
explained below.
Nested Resource Groups are purely for navigational convenience only. You can just view the passwords belonging to the respective resource groups directly. The sub-groups will not inherit sharing and other configurations like scheduled password reset, password action notification and other events from their parents.
Nested Group Tree, depicted as "Password Explorer" as present in the LHS of the "Home" tab of PMP web-interface, has the following components:
All My Passwords
My Recent Passwords
My Favourite Passwords
Nested Resource Group Tree
All the passwords that are owned by you and the ones shared to you will be displayed. If you own resources or some resources had been shared to you, the resources will be displayed.
To access this,
Go to the "Home" >> "My Passwords"
On the LHS, you will find "Password Explorer" >> Click the link "All My Passwords"
Important Note:
The passwords that were accessed by you most recently will be displayed under this section to facilitate easy access to a recently used password. The recently accessed passwords will be shown on top of other available passwords.
To access this,
Go to the "Home" tab >> "My Passwords"
On the LHS, you will find "Password Explorer" >> Click the link "My Recent Passwords"
PMP provides the option to retrieve your favourite passwords with ease. You need not have to search for the resources to locate your favourite passwords. In front of all the accounts, you will find a greyed out 'star' icon. When you click the star, it will turn blue and the respective password will be marked as your favourite password. By clicking the link "My Favourite Passwords", you will be able to retrieve your favourite passwords immediately. At any point of time, you may remove any password from the 'favourites' list by unmarking the star icon from either "All My Passwords" view (Home Tab) or from the "Resources" tab.
Important Note: Assume that you have marked a password that was shared by an admin to you as favourite. The admin revokes the share permission for that particular password. When you click the 'My Favourite Passwords' link, you will see the resource still listed there. However, if you try to retrieve the password, you will not be permitted to view the password. Also, the resource would be removed from the 'My favourites'. By default, you will land up in "My Favourite Passwords" section only.
This tree consists of the following components:
Resource group tree created by you.In this tree, all the resource groups and sub-groups owned by you will be depicted. As mentioned above, by default, the root node of your tree will be named as -
Resource group trees shared to you by other admins.Note that only the groups that the other admins has shared to you will appear in the tree under his/her root node. For example, if an admins has created a tree with 10 groups but had shared only 3 groups with you, you will only see those 3 groups under his/her tree.
Important Notes:
See the section "Creating Resource Groups" section of the help documentation.
See the section "Creating Resource Groups" section of the help documentation.
Though the nested resource groups are mainly intended for navigational convenience, by properly creating the tree, you can leverage a lot of benefits, mainly ease of use.
Assume that you are a Database Administrator responsible for managing the passwords of various databases. In this case, you can construct the resource group tree as explained below:
By default, the root node of your resource group tree will have your login name
Rename it as "Database Passwords"
Create a resource group for each database that you own - say, My SQL Passwords, MS SQL Passwords, Oracle Passwords, Sybase Passwords etc
All these resource groups could be made as the sub-groups of the root node - Database Passwords
Once you do this, you will see your resource group tree as shown below in the "Home" tab of PMP web-interface:
A Network Administrator's Tree Structure
In case, you are a Network Administrator is managing Network Devices of his organization. You may name your root node as "All Network Devices" and have the tree as shown below:
Applications Management team
Assume that you belong to the Applications Management team and responsible for managing various IT applications. You may name your root node as "All Applications". The hierarchical resource group could look like:
To view the resources belonging to a particular Resource Group,
To view the hierarchical order of the resource groups as well the resources that are part of the respective group,
To view the hierarchical order alone,
Yes, the name of the root node can be edited. To edit it.
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