In this module, you will learn about Views, which are user-focused versions of Element Groups, and Users.
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As mentioned previously, user management in up.time is the intersection of individual user profiles, user roles, and user groups. this arrangement of user-related objects is particularly useful for larger deployments, where a diverse and large set of users will want to access up.time for different reasons. For this exercise and module, we will keep the steps simple, but explain what could be done with a larger deployment.
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- In the left pane, click Add New User Group.
- In the Add User Group pop-up window, provide
Linux Adminsas the User Group Name. Select the sample user from the Available Users list, then click Add.
Select Linux Servers from the Available Element Groups, then click Add.
Your user group configuration should look similar to the following:
Note title A web of relationships Due to an object-based approach, you can associate Elements, Element Groups, and Views with user groups, and vice versa. Later in this module, we will create a View, and associate it with the user group we are creating now. If we had created that View first, we would be able to make that association now.
Also note the Elements and Element Groups in the user group definition determine which Elements members of the group have "access" to. This is one way that user groups imply domain of use. This property works in conjunction with user roles: a user group determines what a user has access to, while the user role determines what they can do with the things they can access.
Click Save, then click Close Window. In the main UI window, the Users panel is displayed.
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Even though this created View is strictly for users that are members of the Linux Admins user group, and you are currently logged in as an administrator that is not a member, the View is still visible. An up.time administrator, who has the superadmin user role, will is still be able to view everything. |
Validation (as Sample User):
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- You can see the View intended solely for the sample user.
- This sample user sees this View because you configured it to be associated with the user group that the user belongs to.
- The user can also see only the same Elements under My Infrastructure because, in the second exercise in this module, you configured the user group to include the Linux Servers Element Groups.
- As explored in the first exercise, this user's role limits activity to view-only tasks. To illustrate, if you click the gear beside an Element, you will do not see an Edit option in the pop-up menu.
- The user cannot see anything else on the My Infrastructure panel, since because they are administrative actions.
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Before moving to the next module, log back in as the admin user (the ID and password were set when the Monitoring Station was first run after being installedinstallation).
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