Creating a user to access Telco Network Cloud Manager - Performance Dashboards

Follow these steps to access the Telco Network Cloud Manager - Performance Dashboards from Engine user interface or from Dashboard Application Services Hub.

About this task

If you have Telco Network Cloud Manager - Performance system that is not integrated with Dashboard Application Services Hub, you must use LDAP authentication.

Use LDAP authentication to create users.
Important: The user must be created both using LDAP and also Designer tool to access the dashboards.

Procedure

  1. Optional: Setting up LDAP authentication
    This step is needed only if you are using LDAP user repository.

Creating users from Dashboard Designer.

  1. Log in to Dashboard Designer UI as any administrator user.
  2. In the navigation pane of Dashboard Designer, click Users and Groups > Users.
  3. Click Add User.
    Use the same username that you used to create the LDAP user.
  4. In the username field, enter the name of the user.
  5. In the Tool Role pane, click System Administrator.
  6. Expand Engine Access pane and click Assign Instances and select TNCP instance and click Move to selected icon to add the instance to Selected Engine Instances pane.
  7. To enable the user to access Schedule Tasks menu on Tool Content Groups and Engine User Groups, select the Scheduler checkbox.

    The user can create and manage scheduled tasks for all the dashboards that are displayed on the Engine, irrespective of the assigned User Group.

  8. To assign Tool Content Groups and Engine User Groups, in the User Group(s) pane, click Assign Groups.
  9. Select npiadmin group and click Move to selected icon to add the Tool Content Groups and Engine User Groups to Selected User Groups pane.
  10. Click Save to see the user in the Users page.

What to do next

You can now log in to Telco Network Cloud Manager - Performance Dashboards with the new user and password from Dashboard Application Services Hub or from Engine.