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Create an Admin Role

If the predefined admin roles in CA ControlMinder Enterprise Management are not suitable for your organization requirements, you can create new ones.

To create an admin role

1. In CA ControlMinder Enterprise Management, do as follows:
   1. Click Users and Groups.
   2. Click Roles subtab.
   3. Expand the Admin Roles tree in the task menu on the left.

      The Create Admin Role task appears in the list of available tasks.

2. Click Create Admin Role.

   The Create Admin Role: Select Admin Roles page appears.

3. (Optional) Select an existing admin role to create the new admin role as a copy of it, as follows:
   1. Select Create a copy of a role.
   2. Select an attribute for the search, type in the filter value, and click Search.

      A list of admin roles that match the filter criteria appear.

   3. Select the object you want to use as a basis for the new admin role.
4. Click OK.

   The Create Admin Role task page appears. If you created the admin role from an existing object, the dialog fields are pre-populated with the values from the existing object.

5. Complete the following fields in the Profile tab of the dialog:

   Name

   Defines the name of the role.

   Description

   A textual description of the role.

   Enabled

   Specifies whether the role can be assigned to users and groups.

6. Add tasks to the role, as follows:
   1. Click the Tasks tab.
   2. (Optional) Select a task category from the Filter tasks drop-down list

      The tasks in this category load.

      Note: The task category matches the tab on which tasks in this category appear in CA ControlMinder Enterprise Management.

   3. Select a task from the Add Task drop-down list.

      The task is added to the role.

   4. Repeat steps b through c to add more tasks to the role.
7. Add Member and Scope Rules.
8. Click Submit.

   The role is created.