System security is a major concern of any corporation. Giving the same level of access to all systems to all administrators is dangerous, but individually granting access to tens, hundreds, or even thousands of targets to every new member of the group is time consuming.
With Enterprise Manager’s administrator privileges and roles feature, this task can be performed within seconds, instead of hours.
One Super Administrator, SYSMAN, is created by default during the installation of Oracle Enterprise Manager. The SYSMAN Super Administrator then creates other administrator accounts for daily administration work. The SYSMAN account should only be used to perform infrequent system wide, global configuration tasks.
The Super Administrator divides workload among his administrators by filtering target access, or filtering access to management task, or both through the roles, System Privileges, and Target Privileges he grants them.
For example, he can allow some administrators to view any target and to add any target in the enterprise and other administrators to only perform specific operations such as maintaining and cloning on a target for which they are responsible.
Since the Enterprise Manager Administrators are database users, they can log into the Management Repository database as those users as easily as they can login to Oracle Enterprise Manager.
For conceptual information about Enterprise Manager, see the Oracle Enterprise Manager Concepts.
Creating, Editing, and Viewing Administrators
Creating, Editing, and Viewing Roles
Enterprise Manager Information Roadmap
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