Creating and Managing User Accounts › User Accounts › User Account Parameters

User Account Parameters

User accounts have the following required associations:

Role

The role is a parameter assigned to a user account that controls user access to product features and dashboard pages. Based on user job functions, the role grants administrative access to product configuration. In a well-planned deployment, roles let users access dashboards that they require to perform their duties and restrict access to features that they do not require.

CA Performance Center provides multiple predefined roles, with different role rights. A user with the required role rights can create additional roles and assign them to user accounts.

Permission Groups

Permission groups comprise the scope of the managed items that each user can monitor. Administrators can create custom groups of managed items, such as applications, servers, networks, routers, and interfaces, to reflect each user’s area of responsibility. When they are assigned to a user account as permissions, custom groups are called permission groups.

By default, new user accounts have no group assignment. If you want new users to see managed items, you must assign one or more groups to their user accounts. The predefined ‘admin’ and ‘user’ accounts have access to all groups. For user accounts that you create, limit the groups users can see based on their responsibilities.

Product Privilege

The product privilege is a type of permission set associated with a user account. The product privilege grants user access to features in selected data sources and does not apply to CA Performance Center functionality.

Note: In previous versions of NetQoS Performance Center, the product privilege referred to administrative access to product configuration, such as the ability to create custom groups. The role rights assigned to the user account now determine access to these features in CA Performance Center.