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View Security Object Relationships in the Topology Viewer

Use the Topology Viewer in the Investigator to generate pictorial views of the following security data:

• Security definitions
• Security and compliance events

The Topology Viewer provides a pictorial representation of data in your system. This view makes it easier to identify relationships as you manage your data. Viewing data pictorially is useful when modifying users, roles, and rules because you can clearly see the relationships, dependencies, and impact of your changes.

Example: Compare Roles

You want to compare the roles of existing users of the same group to decide which roles the new user needs.

Follow these steps:

1. Add the Investigator module to your dashboard.
2. Click Start New Investigation, and select the Security role from the drop-down list in the Investigator.
3. Select Definitions, Users from the discipline drop-down list.

   The Search Users view appears.

4. Click View Filter (the magnifying glass icon) and filter users, for example by their User ID. Click Search.

   The filtered list of users is displayed.

5. Select the users that you want to compare. Click Navigation, Add to Topology Viewer in the Actions pane.

   Note: If the Actions pane is hidden, click the double arrow in the right column to show it.

   The Topology Viewer opens and displays a pictorial object for each selected user.

6. Right-click an object and click Show Child Objects From Roles.

   A group object appears under the parent object. The group object indicates the number of child elements that satisfy this relationship. In this example, it shows how many roles this user has.

7. Right-click the group object and click Expand.

   The relationships between the roles for each user are displayed.

8. (Optional) Click Save Path to save this view for later use.

You can now compare a subset of users by role:

• Right-click objects to Expand, Collapse, or Remove nodes.
• Click the toolbar icons to switch between a symmetrical or hierarchical view of the relationships.
• Click View in Grid to return to the table view of the filtered results.

More information:

Security Definitions

Security Events