RE: Profiles

Hello!

If I understand you correctly, there are 3 more or less separate things:

1 - desktop configurations - how views (graphs, alarm browser, maps) are
placed on user desktop;
2 - network maps - graphical representation of your network - either as
a whole or only a part of it;
3 - user rights - what the user can do with the objects, what objects he
is able to see, etc.

With user rights (#3) everything is ok - you can organize users into
groups, give them various rights to nodes, subnets, containers, etc. If
you need additional information about access control, just ask me, and
I'll explain it in details.
Desktop configurations is a bit more problematic, but you have the
ability to create desktop configuration and then copy it to different
users (via "Desktop -> Manage" menu in console). Maybe it's not very
flexible though.
Network maps is in worst condition. Currently you can have only one
"default" map, which represents your entire network. All users can see
this map, but if user doesn't have rights to specific objects, it will
not see these objects on map. We will improve network maps in future
releases - you will have the ability to create different maps which will
represent part of you network or service dependency, give rights for
that maps to different users and specify different default maps for
different users or groups.

As a conclusion: our goal is to build a powerful and easy to use
enterprise network management system, so we are always open for new
ideas, especially if they based on real world network management
experience and requirements. So feel free to share your ideas with us,
it can help to improve the system and make it more useful.

Best regards,
Victor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TIM MOORE [mailto:MOORET10_at_odjfs.state.oh.us]
> Sent: Friday, 29 September, 2006 20:06
> To: NetXMS Users
> Subject: [netxms-users] Profiles
>
>
>
> I emailed this question around a while ago, but never
> received any reply. I was wondering if there was any way to
> have 1 profile (or desktop configuration) and be able to make
> additional desktops that point to the one profile. Maybe I
> can better explain what I'm trying to do.
>
> I want to have one desktop configuration that has our entire
> network in it. I then want to be able to give several users
> the ability to view data within this profile but also be able
> to restrict what they can do with the User Management. I
> want to make this a central monitoring tool and have several
> techs who could watch the Event Viewer, make changes, or add
> devices. I don't want to have separate desktops that
> everyone has to completely "discover" or configure their own
> map. So, I'd love to have the ability to copy the profile
> and have the copy really be a pointer to one master profile.
>
> Is this possible? If not, will it ever be possible?
>
> --------------------------------------
> Tim Moore
> 614.387.8197
> Network Operations Center
> ODJFS
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Received on Sat Sep 30 2006 - 00:47:52 EEST