Managing User Account Permissions › How User Account Permissions Work › Users and Groups

Users and Groups

The group-based security model in the CA PC and CA NPC lets you give access to the report data in the management console. By default, a CA PC or CA NPC role does not give a user permission to access the report data in a management console data source.

Create groups to give users access to some of the applications, servers, and networks, rather than all of the applications, servers, and networks in the management console data source. To enable a user to report on a group in the management console, you must give the user permission to access the group.

System groups let you give a user access to the management console data. If necessary, you can create custom groups to specify the data you want the user to access. For example, to enable a user to report on a system-defined application, create a server group that includes the servers that host the application port of interest.