Product Privilege

Product privilege is an aspect of a user account that grants or restricts access to administrative features.

Each level of product privilege corresponds to a predefined role. The CA Application Delivery Analysis administrator can assign different roles and privileges to user accounts and can customize roles to grant access to different product areas.

The Power User product privilege does not exist in Multi-Port Monitor. However, a Power User with access to the CA Application Delivery Analysis Engineering product area can access all Multi-Port Monitor features except features on the Administration page.

CA Performance Center supports the product privileges used in CA Application Delivery Analysis and Multi-Port Monitor, but the privileges operate on a different level. Product privileges can let one user account have different levels of access to different CA data source products. For example, a person can be a user of CA Application Delivery Analysis, with the ability to view selected items in CA Performance Center. This same person can also be an administrator for a specific instance of CA Application Delivery Analysis when navigated to from a CA Performance Center view.

All Multi-Port Monitor operators have access to the System Status page. However, the User privilege requires at least one role right to be given in order to access the System Status page.

The Administrator product permission is required for an operator to access the Administration page. However, the role for the user account determines access to the Analysis area. And the ability to export an analysis to PCAP format is further restricted to a second area access parameter.

Access to the Analysis page in Multi-Port Monitor is associated with access to the CA Application Delivery Analysis Engineering tab. The Area Access parameter of the user account role determines this access. But even this access is not sufficient to allow the user to export PCAP files, which requires access to the Investigations area.

In CA Performance Center, the product permission setting overlaps with the role settings at the data source level. A user must have access rights and at least User product permissions for a data source to perform the following tasks:

View reports.
Drill into views.
Navigate to that data source from CA Performance Center.

Permissions and role-determined access rights that apply in CA Performance Center are preserved within the Multi-Port Monitor web interface.

The following list summarizes the types of product privileges available in CA Application Delivery Analysis and Multi-Port Monitor and explains their default areas of access:

Administrator level

This level is typically associated with the role of IT Manager and provides access to the following features:

Analysis page
System Status page
Administration page
Export Analysis to PCAP feature

Power User or Investigator level

No predefined Power User account is available in Multi-Port Monitor. This level is the default for the role of Network Engineer and provides access to the following features:

Analysis page
System Status page
Export Analysis to PCAP feature

User level

This level is the default for the role of IT Operator and provides access to the following features:

Analysis page
System Status page

The default IT Operator role does not allow the associated user to export data to the PCAP format, which can contain sensitive data. To grant the necessary area access to a user with this role, the CA Application Delivery Analysis administrator can add the Investigations area to the IT Operator role.