Creating and Managing Roles › Product Privilege

Product Privilege

The user account role is used to grant or restrict user access to CA Performance Center features, such as administration.

But individual data sources allocate product access differently. The 'product privilege' setting for data sources can be applied to create users with administrative capabilities. For example, a person can be a user of CA Performance Center, with no access to administration. That same person can have an Administrator product privilege to a specific instance of CA Network Flow Analysis. That person has full administrative privileges to that data source when following a drilldown path for a CA Network Flow Analysis managed item.

The following types of product privilege may be available in the data sources and synchronized to CA Performance Center:

Administrator

Performs all functions, including creating and editing SNMP profiles and other configuration.

Power User

Creates menus and dashboards. Can also edit and create roles.

User

Views menus and dashboards designated by an administrator or power user.

None

Has no access to a data source. This setting prevents the user from following a drilldown path from a view in CA Performance Center to the data source user interface. By default, all users have this product privilege setting for all data sources.

A user can be denied access to a particular data source while being given access to others.

CA Performance Center administrators can customize a user’s access levels by selecting the appropriate role rights. For more information, see Role Rights.

Coordinate the product privilege setting with the role rights settings. To follow a drilldown path to a data source, a user requires the appropriate role right and a product privilege for that data source.

The predefined administrator account, 'admin', has administrative privileges for any data sources that are registered. The predefined user account, 'user', has limited (user-level) privileges for those data sources.