Suspending accounts on a service

You can suspend an account on a service. This action makes the account inactive.

Before you begin

Depending on how your system administrator customized your system, you might not have access to this task. To obtain access to this task or to have someone complete it for you, contact your system administrator.

Before you can suspend accounts on a service in IBM Verify Identity Governance, you must create a service instance.

In addition, an account must exist, and the account must have an owner.

Note: Suspension of an account does not automatically terminate active sessions that use the suspended account. The account owner is notified when the account is suspended. For privileged accounts that have special privileges to access sensitive information in the system or application, the account owner must follow up manually to ensure that the suspended account can no longer be used to access the system or application immediately after the account is suspended.

Procedure

To suspend an account on a service instance, complete these steps:

  1. From the navigation tree, click Manage Services.
    The Select a Service page is displayed.
  2. On the Select a Service page, complete these steps:
    1. Type information about the service in the Search information field.
    2. In the Search by field, specify whether to search against services or business units.
    3. Select a service type from the Search type list.
    4. Select a status from the Status list, and then click Search.
      A list of services that matches the search criteria is displayed.
      If the table contains multiple pages, you can:
      • Click the arrow to go to the next page.
      • Type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.
  3. In the Services table, click the icon (Context menu icon) next to the service to show the tasks that can be done on the service, and then click Accounts.
    The tasks that you can do are dependent on the type of service.
    The Accounts page is displayed.
  4. On the Accounts page, complete these steps:
    1. Type information about the account in the Account information field.
    2. In the Search by field, specify whether the search is to be done against user IDs or owners.
    3. In the Ownership type field, select an ownership type, and then click Search or Advanced, depending on the type of search you want to do.
      The advanced search option opens a new page where you can specify additional search criteria.
      A list of accounts that matches the search criteria is displayed.
      If the table contains multiple pages, you can:
      • Click the arrow to go to the next page.
      • Type the number of the page that you want to view and click Go.
  5. In the Accounts table, select the check box next to the account that you want to suspend, and then click Suspend.
    A confirmation page is displayed.
  6. On the Confirm page, specify the date and time for the suspension to occur, and then click Suspend, or click Cancel.

Results

A message is displayed, indicating that you successfully submitted a request to suspend an account on the service.

What to do next

Select another account task, or click Close. When the Accounts page is displayed, click Refresh to refresh the Accounts table, or click Close.