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Defining a New Role

The term “roles” as used by the CA RCM is flexible and versatile, allowing it on one hand to answer the need to define roles that comprise a class of access privileges and on the other hand answer the need to define roles that represent organizational structures within a business context. For example, a role can represent access to a specific type of software, or a role can represent a hierarchal business structure component such as Manager Privileges.

Using the CA RCM to build and maintain a corporate role model requires the flexibility to approach this issue from two points of view. The first is by planning the corporate roles and defining them accordingly, based on the organizational structure and other, human resources related, attributes. The second is by mining existing corporate security and privileges information and structuring roles in a “bottom-up” approach, to match the enterprise privileges requirements.

The CA RCM Portal allows you to define new roles on-the-fly. When the need arises to define a new role, whether following an audit or in the course of an enterprise's life cycle, you can do so directly and quickly. The procedure comprises two screens:

• Request New Role Definition
• Definitions For Role Name [New Role Name]

More information:

Request New Role Definition Screen

Definitions for Role Name [New Role Name]