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Add User Accounts

Add a user account for each person who will operate the products. For security purposes, operators should not share user accounts.

Note: This topic describes the steps to perform this task in CA Performance Center. If you register CA Network Flow Analysis as a data source for CA NetQoS Performance Center, the steps are slightly different.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Performance Center Console as a user with the required administrative role rights.
2. Confirm that the required roles and groups exist.
3. Select Admin, User Settings: Users.

   The current list of user accounts is displayed.

4. Click New.

   The Create New User wizard (CA PC) or Add User page (NPC) opens.

5. Enter information for the following account parameters:

   Name

   Is a login name for the user account. Limited to 50 characters.

   Description

   (Optional) Describes the user account to help you identify it.

   Email Address

   (Optional) Associates an email address with the user account.

   Preferred Language (CA PC only)

   Specifies the language spoken by the operator associated with the user account.

   Authentication Type

   Identifies the authentication method that applies to this user account. The method must match Single Sign-On configuration. Select one of the following:

   • Performance Center (CA PC) or Product (NPC) —The default authentication scheme deployed by Performance Center.
   • External—A third-party authentication scheme, such as LDAP or SAML.

   Password

   Defines a password for the user account. The password is limited to 32 characters.

   Time Zone

   Corresponds to the time zone in which the user will view data.

   Default: UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).

   Role

   Is the role assigned to the user account.

   Account Status (CA PC only)

   Determines whether the account is activated for use (Enabled).

   User Options (NPC only)

   Determines whether the account is activated for use (Enabled) and whether the user is allowed to share views with other products (Allow user to generate view URLs).

6. Assign access permissions to the user, as described in Assign Permission Groups to User Accounts.
7. Add permission groups to the user account, described in Assign Product Privileges.
8. Click Save.

   The new user appears in the list of user accounts.