Adding a user to the account

You can add new users to your IBM® NS1 Connect® account and grant them the necessary permissions to manage different aspects of your organization's DNS resources and configurations.

Procedure

  1. Click the User Settings icon and select Users & teams.
  2. Click the Users tab.
  3. Click Add user.
  4. Enter the username, full name, and email address.
    This contact information is saved in Your profile.
  5. If any teams are already configured, you can add the user to one or more teams.
    If you select a team, the user inherits the permissions set at the team level.
  6. In each section of permissions, select or clear permissions based on what is required for this individual user.
    Refer to Account permissions for details about each permission option.
  7. Under Access to DNS resources, indicate whether this user should be able to manage or view DNS zones that are associated with your account.
  8. Do one of the following to identify the zones and records that the user requires access to:
    To Do the following
    Allow the user to access all zones Select the Allow by default check box. However, if the user isn't allowed to access to some zones and records, identify them as follows:
    1. In the Denied zones and records section, from the Select a zone drop-down list, select a zone that the user isn't allowed access to.
    2. From the Select record(s) drop-down list, select the records that the user isn't allowed access to.
    3. Click Add.
    4. To remove any of the records from the list, click X beside the name of the record.
    Deny the user access to all zones Clear the Allow by default check box. However, if the user is allowed access to some zones and record, identify them as follows:
    1. In the Allowed zones and records section, from the Select a zone drop-down list, select a zone that the user is allowed access to.
    2. From the Select record(s) drop-down list, select the records that the user is allowed access to.
    3. Click Add.
    4. To remove any of the records from the list, click X beside the name of the record.
  9. Under Manage IP allow list for this user, identify each IP address or CIDR from which the user can access the account:
    1. In Allow list name, enter the name of the IP address or CIDR.
    2. In IP/CIDR, enter the IP address or CIDR.
    3. Click Add.
    If left blank, only the global or team-level IP allow lists is applied to this user.
  10. Select the Apply this IP allow list exclusively check box to ignore other IP allow lists that are applied at the global or team level.
    If the check box is selected, the user can access only the account from an IP address or CIDR specified here.
  11. Click Save user.

Results

The new user receives a confirmation email with instructions to create a password.