User management

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From the User Management menu, you can add, edit, and delete users and manage user roles.

Select Settings User > Management > User Accounts to manage user accounts.

The User Accounts page displays the following options:
  • The username for the account that the user provides.
  • The system role of the account. The admin, viewer, and alert editor are the roles.
  • The type of authentication, local or Active Directory (AD) authentication.
  • If AD authentication is used for the account, the AD username.
  • If AD authentication is used for the account, the AD domain name.
  • The status of the user, which can be active or inactive.
Users can be assigned one of the following three roles to control which pages and features are available to a user.
Table 1. Roles and description
Role Description
admin The admin role is the system administrator of the IBM® Storage Defender Sentinel anomaly scan software. The admin role can access all pages and modify any settings in the Settings menu.
viewer The viewer role can only view the following pages:
  • Alerts
  • Hosts
  • Backups
  • Settings: View the Index Storage and License Status
This role has the most restrictive permissions and is useful for users that do not need to modify settings.
alert editor The alert editor role has the following permissions:
  • Alerts: Clear the alerts and select the alert configuration.
  • Hosts: Modify the index and the daily thresholds.
  • Backups: View the Backups page.
  • Settings: View the Index Storage and License Status information and the EULA and threshold configurations. In addition, users with the alert editor role can configure, view, modify, and delete thresholds.