User Management

Not all the administrators in an organization will have access to all the switches, routers, and other core devices in the network. The access to passwords, SNMP community strings, etc., of these core devices will be available only to few senior administrators as any minor configuration errors may bring down the whole network or affect the business activities. In such cases, it is required to have different roles within the product to differentiate different users.

You can also authenticate users via Active Directory.

OpUtils allows you to create users in two different roles in administering the product:

Administrator Role

Users in the Administrator Role can perform all the activities in OpUtils. They can add, modify, delete any devices in all the tools and can set up specific configuration parameters like configuring email alerts.

Technician Role

Users in the Technician Role will have limited access to certain tools. They will not be able to do any destructive operations in those tools like deleting or modifying any device configurations. They will also be not able to add any new devices. They will only be able to perform the basic scanning operations, view the results, export the reports, and so on.

Read-only Role

Users in read-only role will only have read access to the tools. They will not be able to add or delete any devices and or initiate scanning or other configurations.

Access Restrictions

The table below will list the various operations and the access levels of different roles:

Tool	Operations	Admin Role	Technician Role	Read-only Role
Switch Port Mapper	Add Switch	Yes	No	No
	Add Router	Yes	No	No
	Schedule Scanning	Yes	No	No
	Changing Settings	Yes	No	No
	Manual Scanning	Yes	Yes	No
	Deleting a Switch	Yes	No	No
	Adding Custom Column	Yes	No	No
	Choosing Columns in View	Yes	Yes	No
	At Port Level
	Disable Interface	Yes	No	No
	Enable Interface	Yes	No	No
	Modify Alias Name	Yes	Yes	No
	Get Port Status	Yes	No	No
	Import System Location	Yes	Yes	No
	Exclude Port	Yes	No	No
	Import Switch Port Details	Yes	Yes	No
IP Address Manager	Adding Subnets	Yes	No	No
	Discovering Subnets	Yes	No	No
	Changing Settings	Yes	No	No
	Scheduling Scan	Yes	No	No
	Choosing Columns in View	Yes	Yes	No
	IP Level
	Changing Reserved Status (Reserved, Not Reserved)	Yes	Yes	No
	Changing Used Status (Used, Available, Transient)	Yes	Yes	No
	Changing Authenticity (Trusted, Guest, Rogue)	Yes	No	No
	Importing IP Details	Yes	Yes	No
	Adding Custom Column	Yes	No	No
	Tree Level
	Right-click Operations on Subnet, Group	Yes	Yes - Only Scan option	No
Rogue Detection	Changing Authenticity (Trusted, Guest, Rogue)	Yes	No	No
	Block/Unblock Port	Yes	No	No
	Add Router	Yes	No	No
	Configure Alert	Yes	No	No
Config File Manager	Adding a Device	Yes	No	No
	Modifying/Deleting a Device	Yes	No	No
	Fetching Config Files Manually	Yes	No	No
	Scheduling Backup	Yes	No	No
	Changing Settings	Yes	No	No
	Comparing Config Files	Yes	Yes	No
	Uploading Config Files	Yes	No	No
	Editing Config Files	Yes	No	No
Network Monitor	Adding a Device	Yes	No	No
	Modifying/Deleting a Device	Yes	No	No
	Exporting Host Details	Yes	No	No
	Configuring Alerts	Yes	No	No
	Scheduling Monitoring	Yes	No	No
Administrative Functions	Add or modify any users in OpUtils.	Yes	No	No
	Configuring general OpUtils Settings (Admin --> Settings --> General tab)	Yes	No	No
	Admin --> Scheduler link will not be available	Yes	No	No
	Configuring SMTP Settings (Admin --> Settings --> SMTP tab)	Yes	No	No
	Adding a Sound File for Sound Alerts	Yes	No	No
	Changing or Resetting the Password	Yes	No	No
	Configuring Scheduled Backup of the OpUtils Database.	Yes	No	No

User Management

The default admin user will only be able to add any new user or modify or delete them.

To add a user

Click the Admin tab and choose User Management from the left panel.

This will display the users that have been already added. Click Add User and choose the authentication as Local or Active Directory. You should add your domains for enabling Active Directory Authentication.

Specify the user name, password and the role.

Optionally, you can also specify the Email Address, Phone Number, and Description of the user.

Click the Add User button. The User is added to the User Account Data table.

Note: As a User/Admin if you want to change/reset the Password and set the Session time for the tool read the Personalize section.

Error Messages : E6003 User already exists

To modify a user

1.Click the Admin tab and choose User Management from the left panel.

2. Click the icon.

3. Modify the user details.

4. Click the Modify button to save the changes.

5.Click Cancel to exit the operation

To delete a user

1. Click the icon located in the User name row. A confirmation dialog appears. Click OK to delete the user or click the Cancel button to exit from the operation.

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