Netcool Configuration Manager - Compliance security

Access management, device security, levels of user permission and security administration are explained. Instructions are also provided for the configuration of all functionality.

User authentication

In Netcool Configuration Manager - Compliance management the term authentication refers to the means by which the system positively identifies each user. The compliance security subcomponent leverages the authentication framework used in the main Netcool Configuration Manager security component to authenticate users.

Device security

Netcool Configuration Manager - Compliance functionality leverages the resource (realm, device) access that can be set up in Netcool Configuration Manager.

Scope
A user's data scope is defined in terms of the group's realms and sub-realms as defined in Netcool Configuration Manager.
Remember: Realms are predefined hierarchies of network resources organized physically or logically.
Network resources defined in a particular realm that is within a group's data scope are accessible by that groups' users.
Security
The ability to act on particular realms and the contents of the realms is controlled using the security tab within the Netcool Configuration Manager Account Management Group window. Users' rights to realm and resources within these realms are inherited from any group to which they belong.
User privileges for device security within the Netcool Configuration Manager - Compliance UI are firstly applied in Netcool Configuration Manager. The privileges may be applied so that users may only select devices on the network to which they have the appropriate access as per device access defined in the main Netcool Configuration Manager security component.
Compliance Validation Users can therefore only view device realms and devices to which they have also been granted access in the main Netcool Configuration Manager security component.