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Administrator Use Case

This use case for the Policy Server administrative model illustrates how administrators are created and how an existing administrator can create and grant privileges to a new administrator.

This scenario involves three administrators

• SuperAdmin
• ManagerAdmin
• JuniorAdmin

Using the three administrators, the following scenarios are described:

• SuperAdmin creating the ManagerAdmin
• ManagerAdmin creating the JuniorAdmin

The following terms are used throughout the use case:

• Access Method

  Specifies how an administrator interacts with the Policy Server.

• Security Category

  Specifies a functional area in which an administrator can execute tasks to manage Policy Server objects or tools.

• Scope

  Indicates whether the administrator's privileges extend to all domains and applications or to only specific domains and applications.

• Permissions

  Determines whether an administrator can read, manage, propagate, or execute a tasks related to a security category.

• Rights

  Defines the administrator's complete set of privileges based on the grouping of the security category, scope and permissions.