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What Administrative Privileges Are Available?

CA DataMinder supports the following administrative privileges:

Admin: Allow administration searches

Allows a user to search for user, group or machine accounts in the Administration console.

Admin: Allow iConsole dashboard searches

Allows a user to view dashboards in the iConsole.

Admin: Allow unrestricted SQL searches

Allows a user to edit the raw SQL search expression generated in the SQL tab when searching for administration data or captured data. Without this privilege, users can view but cannot edit the SQL tab. All administrators get this privilege automatically.

Important! Because this privilege permits users to write unrestricted SQL queries, we strongly recommend that it is granted to other user roles only when absolutely necessary.

Admin: Assign undefined privileges

Allows a user to acquire any new privilege added to CA DataMinder after an upgrade. Only the primary administrator and users with the administrator role get this privilege automatically.

Important! Because this privilege assigns potentially unknown privileges, we strongly recommend that it is granted to other users only when absolutely necessary.

Admin: Disable security model filtering

Allows a user to bypass security restrictions and search for events outside of their management group. It also enables a user to search for events that are not associated with a CA DataMinder user. Only users with the administrator role get this privilege automatically.

Important! Because this privilege permits users to bypass security, we strongly recommend that it is granted to users only when absolutely necessary.

Admin: Edit customizable console text

Allows a user to define audit status descriptions and customized user attributes.

Admin: Edit user roles

Allows a user to add new user roles and to modify the default set of administrative privileges assigned to each user role.

Admin: Install license file

Allows a user to install a license file on the CMS. The license file determines which policy modules are available in your CA DataMinder installation.

Admin: Manage System Files

Allows a user to view or edit system files on the CMS using the System File Explorer. For example, users can install a new definition file for US Social Security numbers.

Admin: Manage iConsole

Allows a user to access the Administration tab in the iConsole. This tab enables users to manage searches and reports and to define custom iConsole configurations for user roles. For example, this privilege permits a user to install and publish a new search and to specify which user roles can run the new search. This privilege also allows a user to define the default layout for the home page.

Typically, only administrators have this privilege.

Admin: Manage security models

Allows a user to add, modify or remove security models. This also allows a user to set the database credentials for each security model (these are the database accounts that CA DataMinder uses to access the CMS database).

This privilege also lets users set the password for the database primary user (by default, WGNUSER).

Note: This privilege is not connected to the 'Users: Reset user passwords' privilege; see below.

Admin: Use single sign-on

Allows a user to log on with single sign-on, even if the CMS machine policy setting Allow single sign-on? is set to False.

Agents: Edit content agents

Allows a user to set up registered content agents.

If a user has neither this privilege nor View content agents (see below), the Registered Content Agents branch is hidden from the user in the Administration console.

Note: This privilege does not affect an administrator's ability to configure Content Agent triggers.

Agents: View content agents

Allows a user to view registered content agent details.

Note: This privilege does not affect an administrator's ability to configure Content Agent triggers.

Audit: Allow auditing without viewing the event

Allows a user to change the audit status of an event without needing to view it. This also makes it possible to change the audit status of multiple events in a single operation.

Audit: Always suppress automatic auditing

Allows a user to view events without adding a Viewed Event entry to the audit trail. Other audit activities, such as changing an event status or forwarding a copy of the event via email will create an audit entry.

Audit: Always suppress automatic export logging

Allows a user to export events (to either a self-contained web site, or a Microsoft Personal Folder) without adding a Exported Event entry to the audit trail.

Audit: Choose to suppress automatic auditing

Allows a user to choose whether to view events without adding a Viewed Event entry to the audit trail. The user is prompted to choose when opening the first event of a new search and that choice stands for all events in the current search results. If the same search is rerun, the user is prompted again.

Note: For full access to auditing features in the Audit tab, the user also needs the Audit: Update audit trail privilege - see below.

Audit: Update audit trail

Allows a user to update the audit trail for an individual event.

Audit: View audit trail

Allows a user to view, but not update, the audit trail for an individual event.

Events: Allow bulk session management

Allows a user to access multiple CA DataMinder user accounts.

Events: Allow content searches

Allows a user to search for captured web and email documents based on their text content. Content searches look for documents saved and indexed in a CA DataMinder content database. They are available in the iConsole and Data Management console.

Events: Allow download of original content

Allows a user to download an event in its original format, such as MSG files for email message.

Events: Allow event import

Allows a user to run the Event Import utility.

Events: Allow event searches

Allows a user to search for captured web, email and application data in the iConsole and Data Management console.

Events: Allow export

Allows a user to export search results to either a self-contained web site, or a Microsoft Personal Folder (PST file).

Events: Allow searches of unlimited size

Allows an iConsole reviewer to run 'unlimited' event searches. That is, the iConsole will return all events that match the search criteria, disregarding any result limits defined in the registry.

Note: For this privilege to take effect, the iConsole must be configured for unlimited searches. For details, see the Platform Deployment Guide; search the index for 'iConsole: search results, configuring'.

Events: Change expiry dates

Allows a reviewer to edit the expiry date and 'do not delete' flag for an event.

Events: Control quarantined events

Allows a user to either release or reject an email from quarantine.

Events: View captured data

Allows a user to view captured data associated with any user in their management group. This privilege also allows users to use the Content Indexer utility (a necessary task before using content agents or running content searches).

Events: View expiry dates

Allows a user to view the expiry date and 'do not delete' flag for an event.

Machines: Edit the machine hierarchy

Allows a user to manage machine accounts in the Machine Administration screen.

Note: This privilege also permits users to suspend and resume machines.

Machines: View log files

Allows a user to access the Log Files screen.

Machines: View the machine hierarchy

Allows a user to view existing machine accounts in the Machine Administration screen.

Policies: Edit policy

Allows a user to view and edit any machine policy and any user policy that falls within their management group.

Policies: Edit the CMS policy

Allows a user to edit the machine policy for the CMS. If you clear this check box, access to the CMS policy is denied but users can still edit other machine policies.

Policies: Replicate changes to clients

Allows a user to replicate any policy changes down to client machines immediately. If a user does not have this privilege, any changes they make will replicate automatically at intervals defined in the CMS policy.

Policies: View policy

Allows a user to view any machine policy and any user policy that falls within their management group.

Users: Edit the user hierarchy

Allows a user to access the User Administration screen and manage accounts for any user in their management group.

Users: Reset user passwords

Allows a user to set a new CA DataMinder password for another user without knowing their existing password.

Note: This privilege does not apply to database logon passwords. These are governed by the Admin: Manage Security Models privilege - see above.

Users: View the user hierarchy

Allows a user to access the User Administration screen and view accounts for any user in their management group.