Administration Guide › User Accounts › Edit a User Account

Edit a User Account

Only Administrators can create and edit user accounts. You can search for a user and display the selected user account information for any of the following reasons:

• To assign a CA Enterprise Log Manager role, that is, application group membership, to a global user, where account information was loaded from a referenced user store
• To update global user details for an account in the local user store
• To suspend the user account
• To reset the password for a user account either because the password was forgotten or the account is locked and the password policy does not allow users to unlock user accounts
• To disable a user account or reset the duration for the enabled account

Important! Make no entry in the Incorrect Login Count field in the Authentication area. The value displayed in this field is updated by the system.

To edit a user account

1. Click the Administration tab and the User and Access Management subtab.
2. Click Users on the left pane.

   The Search Users pane appears.

3. Specify search criteria on the Search Users pane in one of the following ways:
   • To add application details for global user, select Global Users, enter search criteria, and click Go.
   • To edit the account of a user with an existing CA Enterprise Log Manager role, select Application User Details, enter search criteria, and click Go.

   Note: For search criteria, use the operator LIKE when you specify a wildcard as the value and use the operator EQUAL when you specify the complete string. Examples follow:

   • Group Membership LIKE Aud*
   • Group Membership EQUALS Auditor

   The names of users meeting the search criteria appear in the Users pane.

4. Click the user name of the account to edit.

   The selected account appears in the right pane.

5. To add a role, click Add Application User Details, select the appropriate role from Available User Groups, and move it to Selected User Groups.
6. To update global user details, replace existing details with the new details in the Global User Details section.

   Note: You can update details only if the using the default user store.

7. To update authentication configuration, do any of the following:
   • Select Override Password Policy to exclude this user from checks performed by all password policies.
   • Select Suspended to prevent this user from logging in to any CA Enterprise Log Manager server.
   • Clear Suspended to activate this account so the user can log in.
   • If your password policy is set to disallow users to unlock passwords and this user has a locked password, select Reset Password, enter the new password twice, and select Change Password at Next Login.

     Note: The Incorrect Login Count field is automatically incremented for a failed login attempt and reset to 0 with a successful login attempt. A user account becomes locked if the incremented value reaches or exceeds the password policy value set for lock user account after the specified number of failed logins.

   • Set a duration for when this account is to be enabled by clicking Enable Date and setting a start date and then clicking Disable Date and setting an end date. Users have access from the beginning of day on the start date to the end of the day on the end date. To allow access for one day, specify the same date as start and end.
8. Click Save.

   Updates to the user account are saved and in force.