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Assign Product Privileges

Each data source that is registered with CA Performance Center has its own product privilege setting, which grants unique privileges within that product interface. Administrators use CA Performance Center to give users product privileges for each data source. The data source product privilege affects a user's ability follow a drilldown path from a CA Performance Center data view to the native interface for the data source. Any privileges granted in this manner are specific to a data source instance. For example, if more than one CA Network Flow Analysis data source is registered with an instance of CA Performance Center, the product privileges for each NFA console are assigned separately.

The default administrator account, admin, is locked to prevent changes to product privileges. This account is required to have Administrator privileges for all registered data sources. If you select a group of accounts that includes the admin account, you cannot edit the product privileges for any of the selected accounts.

CA Network Flow Analysis Product Privileges

A user must have product privileges on the CA Network Flow Analysis data source to log into the NFA console. Product privileges also specify access to the Administration page and to certain functions:

User

Gives access to Top Interfaces reports and Interface Utilization reports on the Enterprise Overview page.

A User with the appropriate Permission Group settings also has access to the following reports:

• Top Hosts and Top Protocols reports on the Enterprise Overview page
• Interfaces page reports
• Existing reports on the Custom Reporting, Flow Forensics, and Analysis pages

The Role and Permission Group settings determine whether the User also can run existing reports, create reports, and manage reports. To create reports, a User must have access to all groups.

Power User

Gives User-level access and any additional abilities that are granted by the Role setting.

Administrator

Gives access to the Administration page and to all functions, including creating and managing user accounts, roles, groups, SNMP profiles, and scheduling for reports.