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New User Account: Example

To understand user account parameters, consider an example. A Data Center Manager at your company is responsible for data centers, staff, and infrastructure in the Southwest region. To set up a user account for this operator, you would do the following:

1. Create a group named 'Southwest'.
2. Add managed items to this group.

   Include all the routers, switches, applications, and servers that compose the Southwest region.

3. Create a custom role that includes the product features and menus that the Data Center Manager requires.

   Because the Data Center Manager is not a network engineer, she does not drill in to detailed data in the data sources. To manage her team, however, she needs to create dashboards and assign them to the roles assigned to members of her team.

   She only needs to see menus containing high-level Management and Operations dashboards.

4. Add the user account.
5. When adding the user account, select the following:
   • The custom 'Data Center Manager' role.
   • The permission groups containing the managed items within the Southwest group that the Data Center Manager needs to monitor.