roles

Roles are a collection of predefined Enterprise Manager target privileges, or system privileges, or both created by Super Administrators. Roles offer the following benefits:

limit target access
limit access to specific management features
facilitate the granting of privileges, or roles, or both

By creating roles, an administrator needs only to assign the appropriate roles to members of his team. These roles can be based upon geographic location (for example, a role for Canadian administrators to manage Canadian systems), line of business (for example, a role for administrators of the human resource systems or the sales systems), or any other model.

Creating roles also facilitates the granting of multiple privileges or roles to users. Administrators do not want to perform the tedious task of individually granting access to tens, hundreds, or even thousands of targets to every new member of their group.

Public Role

Enterprise Manager creates one role by default called 'Public'. This role is unique in that it is automatically assigned to all new non-super administrators when they are created. By default it has no privileges assigned to it. The Public role should be used to define default privileges you expect to assign to a majority of non-super administrators you create. Privileges need not be assigned to Public initially - they can be added at any time. The role may be deleted if your enterprise does not wish to use it. If deleted, it can be added back in later if you later decide to implement it.

Related Topics

Enterprise Manager Information Roadmap