Associating Authorization Groups with Groupings of Devices

Associating Authorization Groups with Groupings of Devices

Privileges of users can be modified by profiles and access rights in authorization group.
Each user must have an account in nodegrid or in external authentication server.

Follow these steps,

1. Login as admin and go to Security::Authorization
    Here you can create group names that can be associated with specific groupings of servers, network or storage devices
2. Click Add and enter name i.e testmenu and click Save
3. Select Local Accounts and enter username i.e user1 
4. Enter and confirm user password
5. Select testmenu from groups and click Add to add the user to testmenu group
6. Click Save
7. Go to Authorization and select testmenu and then go to Profile
8. Under Profile settings enable Menu Driven Access to devices and click Save
9. Go to Devices and select the target devices from list to be added for this user to access and click Add
10. Click Save and Ok

Now login into Nodegrid via putty or securecrt or through ssh with user1 i.e ssh user1@Nodegrid_IP
You will see only the devices assigned to user1

Note: One has to go to Security::Services and enable Device access enforced via user group authorization

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