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title: "Creating Admin and User Accounts"
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Effective use of NetMRI requires an efficient and logical plan for user accounts. User account administration is a straightforward but fundamentally important part of a NetMRI rollout.  
 Two administrative concepts are involved for NetMRI users: the user accounts themselves, and each account's associated *Role*.  
 You can define and authenticate your admin users *remotely*, where all users and their accounts are authenticated and authorized for their roles and privileges through an external server such as RADIUS or LDAP. This chapter describes how to set up local authentication services in NetMRI. For remote configurations, see [ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[NetMRI](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[User](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Authentication](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408) [ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Authorization](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*. You can also define and authenticate all of your admin users *locally*, where all user accounts and their assigned roles and privileges are defined in the NetMRI system.

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**Note:** For external authentication and authorization services, NetMRI receives the login requests from the user and forwards them to them to the Authentication/Authorization server, which performs the actual transaction. In this chapter, you configure authentication based only in the local appliance.

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User Administration in NetMRI

You define user administration functions in the **Settings** window (Settings icon **–>** **User** **Admin** section), performing the following tasks:

- Create, edit and delete user accounts. Each user account is assigned one or more Device Groups over which they have some administrative functions.
- Define two primary types of users: *local* *user* and *remote* *user*.
  - Local users have their entire login credentials, user Roles and device group permissions defined locally on the NetMRI appliance;
  - Remote users have Roles assignments and device group permissions defined in Authentication Service Properties, and those assignments and permissions are granted remotely through an external service.

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**Note:** Device groups are a NetMRI organizational unit that gathers devices in related groups—routers in a *Routers* group, Ethernet switches in a *Switches* group, and so on. For related information on device groups, see [ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Devices](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Interfaces](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326360)</span>*.

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- Create, edit and delete user *Roles*. You assign Roles to each individual user account and define the privileges and tasks, and specific networks and network devices on which the NetMRI user can operate. A user account is ineffective without an assigned Role. A user account can use one or more Roles.
- Each Role is comprised of a set of access *Privileges*, which are the types of tasks that the user can carry out in their assigned Role.
- Review the Audit Log. The Audit Log provides records of all actions taken by all NetMRI users, showing the timestamp, event type and associated descriptive messages.

Several advanced User Administration settings are located in the Advanced Settings section. For more information, see *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Advanced](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[User](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Administration](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Settings](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark210)</span>*.  
 User administration provides support from external authentication servers. Because NetMRI supports both external authentication and authorization features through remote groups, mirroring the Roles and Privileges provided in local NetMRI user provisioning, you can leverage remote AAA server configurations (from TACACS+, LDAP, Active Directory and RADIUS) without having to directly provision significant numbers of users on NetMRI.

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Advantages of Remote Authentication and Authorization for Users

When a new user is authenticated and authorized through one of the remote services described in [ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[NetMRI](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[User](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408) [ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Authentication](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Authorization](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*, NetMRI automatically creates the new account locally and learns the Roles and device group assignments from the remote service. If there happens to be an established local user account, and the account login is authenticated and authorized by an external service, NetMRI will update its local profile to reflect the Roles and device group assignments granted by the last external authorization.

- User Roles and privileges are learned from the remote group assignment that is defined on the Authentication Service.
- Passwords, whether encrypted or plaintext, are not stored on the NetMRI appliance, and are consistently checked against the external server.
- On occasions when no external service is available, the user will be asked to use local login credentials. This requires enabling of the Local authentication service.

For more information on remote authentication and authorization of NetMRI users, see [ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[NetMRI](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[User](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Authentication](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408) [ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Authorization](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408)</span>[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326408) and its subsections.

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Managing User Data

For the **Users** and **Roles** pages, the Select check box is to the left of an Action icon. When you select multiple rows of a table, a whole page, or multiple pages of either data type, you can choose **Delete** from the Action menu for any selected row. You cannot edit multiple rows of data; the **Delete** option is the only available option after selecting multiple rows.  
 Doing so enables you to delete all selected records from the table. Exercise caution when performing this action, as you may unintentionally delete rows of data that you did not wish to select.  
 While it is possible to select the entire table's worth of data in the **Users** page (**Settings** icon **–>** **User** **Admin** **–>** **Users**), the admin user account can never be deleted; the default set of NetMRI Roles (**Settings** icon **–>** **User** **Admin** **–>** **Roles**) also may not be deleted (though they are otherwise editable) and the **Delete** option is ghosted for each of them in the Action menu. In all cases, NetMRI user accounts with read-only privileges will not be able to perform this action.  
 You can use a feature called Force Local Authentication for any user account in your appliance:

- Administrators can enable the **Force ** **Local ** **Authentication** check box for local user accounts to provide a specific profile to users that also exist on a remote authentication/authorization service. In the user configuration, you enable the **Force ** **Local** ** Authorization** option and its read-only **Last ** **Login** value will show the external service name. Locally created user accounts automatically enable this option, which can be disabled at any time. If the user is learned by NetMRI through a remote authentication/authorization service, this option is automatically disabled.
- When a user is learned by NetMRI through a remote authentication/authorization service, the administration cannot then re-create the user account. You may activate the **Force ** **Local** ** Authentication** check box for an externally learned account and redefine its password and other user details. (The Local authentication service also must be placed first in the Authentication Services list.) Taking these steps, you can ensure that an account is verified and authorized locally, without using the same login defined on the external service. An alternative is to define a different local login credential for the user.
- The **Force ** **Local ** **Authentication** setting is automatically enabled for all new locally created users.

You can change local user accounts settings at any time:

- You can change the local user password.
- You can disable a user account at any time;
- You can change assigned Roles and device groups for an account, but changes will persist only when the account is locally authenticated and authorized, with the Local authentication service taking the highest Priority setting and the **Force** ** Local ** **Authentication** check box enabled for the account.
- You can define CLI credentials, notes and Email settings for all users in the User database.

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Understanding Users and Roles

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**Note:** Privileges play a key part in roles configuration. Each of the pre-defined roles uses a specific collection of Privileges, which are pre-defined administrative functions that cannot be edited or changed. You can delete Privileges from a defined Role and create new Roles with custom sets of Privileges. Also see [ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Privilege](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206) [ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ Descriptions](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark206) for details on the Privileges comprising user Roles.

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User accounts are the standard identities of all users of the NetMRI appliance.  
 You assign roles to each user account, after assigning the *privileges* that each user account is allowed to perform. User accounts are granular to individuals, while roles apply across different accounts. NetMRI provides a set of pre-defined Roles with specific privileges in NetMRI, as follows:

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| AnalysisAdmin | Specializes in creating and managing NetMRI Issues. Assigned privileges include **Issues:** **Modify** ** Parameters**, **Issues:** **Modify** ** Suppression** ** Parameters**, **Issues:** **Modify** ** Priority**, **Issues**, **Define ** **Notifications**, and **View:** **Non ** **Sensitive**. |
| ChangeEngineer: High | Allowed to write, schedule and execute job scripts of any degree of risk sensitivity. Privileges include **Switch** ** Port** ** Admin,** ** Scripts:Author**; **Scripts:Level1** (low risk), **Scripts, ** **Level2** (medium risk), **Scripts, ** **Level3** (high risk), **View:** **Audit** ** Log**, **View:** **Sensitive** and **View:** **Non-Sensitive**. This role also can launch SSH and Telnet sessions using NetMRI's Telnet/SSH Proxy feature, using User Credentials (**Terminal: Open** ** Session**). This Role can also modify CLI credentials (**Terminal:** **Modify ** **Credentials**). The **Collection:** **Poll ** **On ** **Demand** privilege provides the ability to perform on-demand polling of individual network devices. |
| Change Engineer: Medium | Allowed to write, schedule and execute job scripts. Privileges include **Switch Port ** **Admin,** **Scripts:Author**, **Scripts:Level1**, (low risk); **Scripts, ** **Level2** (medium risk), **View:** **Sensitive** and **View: Non-Sensitive**. This role can launch SSH and Telnet sessions using NetMRIs Telnet/SSH Proxy feature (**Terminal: Open ** **Session**), using NetMRI default credentials. By default, this role cannot modify CLI credentials. The **Collection:** **Poll On ** **Demand** role provides the ability to perform on-demand polling of individual network devices |
| Change Engineer: Low | Allowed to write, schedule and execute job scripts with a low sensitivity to risk. Privileges include **Switch ** **Port ** **Admin,** **Scripts:Author**, **Scripts:Level1** (low risk), **View:** **Sensitive** and **View:**   
 **Non-Sensitive**. Users with this role cannot launch SSH or Telnet sessions and those options will not appear in the device shortcut menu (right-clicking on a device's IP address, a VLAN IP and other elements in the NetMRI UI). By default, users with this role also cannot modify CLI credentials. |
| Config Admin | Read-only account that is allowed to view all sensitive data in NetMRI. Privileges include **View:** **Audit ** **Log**, **View:** **Sensitive**; and **View:** **Non-Sensitive**. |
| Default View Role | Read-only account that is allowed to view only non-sensitive data. Privileges include **View:** **Non-Sensitive**. |
| Event Admin | Event system administrator. Privileges include **Events: Admin** which enables creation of new Event Symptoms, and **View:** **Non-Sensitive**. |
| FindIT | Allows access only to the NetMRI FindIT tool. |
| GroupManager | Creates and manages interface groups, device groups and related result sets. Privileges include **Groups:** **Create**, **Groups:** **Delete**, **Groups:** **Result** ** Sets**, **View:** **Non-Sensitive**. and **View:** **Sensitive**. |
| Policy Manager | Creates and manages Policies for one or more Groups in NetMRI to standardize and lock down configurations for networked devices such as routers, switches and firewalls. Privileges include **Policy:** **Deploy**, **Policy:** **Create,** **Edit ** **and ** **Delete**, **View:** **Audit** ** Log**, **View:** **Non-Sensitive**, and **View:** **Sensitive**. |
| Report Admin | Role to allow the creation and editing of Report features in NetMRI. Associated privileges include **Reports:** **Report** ** Manager**, **View:** **Non-Sensitive**, and **View:** **Sensitive**. |
| Switch Port Administrator | Switch port administrator. Privileges include **Switch** **Port** **Admin** which enables changes to switch port configurations such as VLAN assignment and port activation, and **View: Non-Sensitive**. |
| SysAdmin | The global administrator account Role for NetMRI. Includes the **System Administrator** privilege and **View:** **Audit** **Log**. SysAdmins can manage, add and remove scan interfaces and map them to networks; manage, add and remove network views. |
| UserAdmin | Create and edit NetMRI user accounts and Roles, and assign privileges. Includes **View:** **Audit** **Log**, **View:** **Non-Sensitive**, **User** **Administrator**, **Reset** **Passwords** and **Issues:** **Define** **Notifications**. |

You can create custom Roles, with custom sets of privileges to suit the needs of your organization. You can add and remove privileges and user accounts from each of the pre-defined Roles in the NetMRI appliance.  
 See [ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Defining](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Editing](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Roles](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202)</span>[ ](#CreatingAdminandUserAccounts-bookmark202) for more information.  
 The 17 default Roles built into the system cannot be deleted from the appliance. Custom Roles can be deleted and edited.

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You create, edit and delete user accounts in the **Users** page (Settings icon **–> User Admin section –> Users**). By default, the **admin** account is the single user account built in to the appliance. You cannot remove this account.

In the Users window, each user account lists the following:

- **User** **Name**: the network identity of the user;
- **First** **Name** and **Last** **Name**: the configured first name and surname for the user;
- **Last** **Login**: the time and date of last login;
- **Last** **Authentication**: shows the authentication service that granted the last login;
- **Last**** Authorization**: This field is updated at each user login; possible values include the following:
  - **Remote** when the user logs in using their remote password, and their **Force**** Local ****Authorization** setting is set to False for their user account. The user is granted the roles defined from the remote group assignment in the authentication service properties.
  - **Local** in cases where the user simply logs in using their local appliance password; or, when the user logs in to the remote authentication service using their remote password, and the **Disable ****Authorization** checkbox is enabled for that service. is disabled for their account
  - **Forced** **Local** when the user logs-in using their remote password and their **Force** **Local** **Authorization** setting is set to False in their User properties. The user is granted the local roles and access to their device groups.  
For remotely authenticated users, including new accounts learned from logins to a configured remote service, the field will show **No** and the service will show the service name.

- **Roles**: the role(s) assigned to the account
- **Account****Status**: (**active** or **disabled**). An admin can disable a user account by enabling its **Account****Disabled** check box. When you do so, the user will receive a **User****Disabled****or****Locked** message upon the subsequent login.

When scheduling or running a job (see *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Creating](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Scheduling](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Jobs](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>*<span style="color: #0000ff">[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NMRIAG732/pages/31326254/Job+Management+and+Automation+Change+Manager#JobManagementandAutomationChangeManager-bookmark567)</span>for more information), if user credentials are required and the **Use** **the** **requester's** **stored** **CLI** **credentials** or **Use** **the** **approver's** **stored** **CLI** **credentials** job options are selected, then the CLI credentials associated with the given user account are used to login to the network devices that are part of the job. Admins can modify command-line execution credentials for each created user account through the **CLI** **Credentials** tab. For more information, see the corresponding procedure further in this section.

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**Note:** The **Actions** for each account in the Users list represent the actions that the admin user can take on that user account (Edit, Delete, etc.).

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**Note**: User account names are case-sensitive. You can use some non-alphanumeric characters for naming, including bracket characters, such as @!#$%^&*()[]{}. Punctuation characters (,.;'"), the equal sign =, vertical bar |, and spacebar character are disallowed.

If you use TACACS+ authentication and authorization with NetMRI, you should keep in mind that TACACS user names are case-insensitive. Therefore, the case must not be the only difference between NetMRI and TACACS user names.

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To create a new user account, do the following:

1. Click **Add**** User** (below the table).
2. In the **Add ****New**** User** dialog **–>****User ****Details** tab, enter values for the **First ****Name**, **Last**** Name**, **Username** and **Password** fields. Fill in optional fields as needed.
  1. If you want the new account to be disabled by default, check the **Account**** Disabled** check box.
  2. If you want the user to be authenticated and authorized by the NetMRI appliance for their roles and device group assignments, check the **Force ****Local ****Authorization** check box. This enables the user to have a locally defined login that is separate from the remote one on the AAA server. Leaving this check box clear enables the user account to be subjected to authorization through a remote AAA server.
3. Click **Save**. The **Roles** and **CLI**** Credentials** tabs activate, allowing you to assign Roles to the account.
4. In the **Roles** tab, click **Add**.
5. In the **Add ****Role**** to**** User**** <username>** dialog, choose a role from the drop-down list.
6. In the **Device**** Groups** list, click to choose the device group(s) the user is allowed to access. Click **All** (the first item in the list) to allow the user account to access all device groups.
7. Click **OK**. The new Role settings are saved for the user account.
8. In the **Add ****New**** User** dialog, click the **Close** button.

To edit an existing user account, do the following:

1. Click the **Edit** icon for the account.
2. In the **Edit**** User** dialog, make the necessary changes, then click the **Close** button.

To delete a user account, do the following:

1. Click the **Delete** icon for the account.
2. Confirm the deletion.

To define command-line credentials for a user account, do the following:

1. In the **Edit ****User** dialog, click the **CLI ****Credentials **tab for the user account. This tab allows CLI credentials (username, password and Enable password for devices) to be associated with specific user accounts.
2. If desired, enable the **User**** CLI**** Credentials ****Enabled** check box. The admin account can log in to network devices using the CLI credentials associated with the given account, instead of the admin credentials associated with devices during their Discovery.
3. Enter the user's **Username** and **Password** values, and confirm the password.
4. Enter the admin account's **Enable** **Password** and confirm it.

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**Note:** Roles are also limited by a chosen user's permitted access to device groups. Device groups accessible to a user are specified in the user's account.

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A role defines what a user can do within NetMRI. Each role consists of a set of privileges, each of which specifies a distinct permitted activity. The **Roles** page (Settings icon **–>** **User** **Admin** **–>** **Roles**) enables an administrator to create, edit and delete roles.

  
 To create a new role, do the following:

1. Click **Add** (below the table).
2. In the **Add**** Role** dialog **–>****Users** tab, enter a descriptive name in the **Name** field.
3. In the **Description** field, describe the role.
4. Click **Save**. This adds the new role to the **Roles** table. **Users** and **Privileges** tabs appear.

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**Note:** You can assign one or more user accounts or privileges to the new role. It is not necessary to assign users to the role (this can done in the user account), but privileges *must* be assigned for the new pole to be meaningful.

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5. In the **Users** tab, click **Add**. The **Add** **User** **for** **<Username>** **Role** dialog appears, displaying a Users drop-down list and the list of Device Groups in the appliance.

6. In the **Add**** User ****for ****<Username>**** Role** dialog **–>****User** drop-down list, choose one or more users for the role.

7. In the **Device ****Group** table, select the device group check boxes to be associated with this role.

8. Click **OK**.

9. As needed, repeat steps 5 through 8 for other accounts.

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**Note:** A role containing optional user/device group definitions can be assigned only to users listed in the **Role** **Users** tab. To allow a role to be assigned to any user, delete user/device group definitions in this tab.

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To specify privileges for the role, do the following:

1. In the **Edit** **Role** **–>** **Privileges** tab, click **Add**.
2. In the **Add** **Privileges** dialog, select the **Privileges** check boxes (see list below) to be associated with the role.
3. Click **OK**.
4. In the **Edit** **Role** dialog, click **Save** **&** **Close**.

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Editing Roles

To edit a role, do the following:

1. Click the **Edit** button for the role.
2. In the **Edit** **Role** dialog, as needed, edit the **Name** and/or **Description**.
3. Add or delete users/device groups in the **Users** tab and add or delete privileges in the **Privileges** tab.
4. Click **Save**.

To copy a role, do the following:

1. Click the **Copy** button for the role.
2. Confirm the copy.

The copied role appears in the list as "<previous name Copy." To delete a role, do the following:

1. Click the **Delete** button for the role.
2. Confirm the deletion.

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Privilege Descriptions

The following NetMRI system privileges can be assigned to Roles:

| **Privilege** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| Configure Networks | A system privilege applied to SysAdmin roles. Allows adding of new networks, changing Network View mappings and mapping local VRFs to networks. |
| Switch Port Admin | A system privilege applied to Switch Port Administrator Roles. This Privilege allows the Role to perform the following tasks:   
 Modify port descriptions (**Interface** **Viewer–>** **Settings–>** **Port** **Control** **Settings**).   
 Set a switch port to Administratively UP or Administratively Down (**Interface** **Viewer–>** **Settings–>** **Port** **Control** **Settings**).   
 Change a port's VLAN assignment (**Interface** **Viewer–>** **Settings–>** **Port** **Control** **Settings**).   
 Specify ports to exclude from Switch Port Management page views (**Interface** **Viewer–**  **>** **Settings–>** **General** **Settings**).   
 View system feedback for their most recent action. |
| Collection: Poll On Demand | Users with this privilege can perform on-demand polling of individual network devices for the admin account using this privilege. |
| View: Non Sensitive | Ability to view all non-sensitive information in NetMRI, such as Issues, Changes, audit logs and device states through the Device Viewer. Users with these privileges cannot carry out the following:   
 Setup tasks beyond Setup Summaries (**Settings** **–>** **Setup** **–>** **Settings** **Summary**).   
 License management and many other NetMRI Settings configurations (**Settings –>** **Setup** **–>** **General** **Settings**).   
 Database settings beyond viewing statistics **Settings** **–>** **Setup** **–>** **Database** **Settings**). View: Non Sensitive also cannot view or modify device configuration files, CLI and SNMP credentials, or NetMRI user accounts.   
 Users with View: Non Sensitive privileges can schedule and run reports. |
| View: Sensitive | Ability to view all sensitive information in NetMRI, including policy compliance configurations, device configurations in Configuration Management, configuration of user accounts, and Setup, Licensing and Database tasks otherwise not accessible by View: Non Sensitive privileges. |
| View: NetMRI System Info | Ability to view NetMRI appliance settings. |
| Custom Data: Input Data | A privilege allowing non-Admin user accounts to edit and enter information in custom data fields previously created by the Admin account. Example: for network devices, custom fields are useful for recording important contextual data such as asset tag numbers and physical location — information that NetMRI does not gather on its own. By default, the Admin account is the only account with permissions to edit such data fields. 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| System Administrator | Allows user complete access to the NetMRI appliance. |
| Reset Passwords | Privilege that allows a user to change passwords other than their own. |
| User Administration | Privilege that allows a user to create users, and assign roles and privileges |
| Issues: Modify Parameters | Privilege that allows a user to define and change analysis parameters, including analysis schedules. |
| Issues: Modify Suppression Parameters | Privilege that allows a user to modify issue suppression parameters. |
| Issues: Modify Priority | Privilege that allows a user to set priority of issues. |
| Issues: Define Notifications | Privilege that allows a user to define notifications for the issues |
| Scripts: Level 1 | Execute and schedule packaged scripts and commands designated level 1 (low risk) |
| Scripts: Level 2 | Execute and schedule medium-risk packaged scripts and commands. |
| Scripts: level 3 | Execute and schedule high-risk packaged scripts and commands. |
| Scripts: Author | Author scripts and packaged commands, and save them for re-use by others. |
| Policy: Create, Edit, and Delete | Create, edit, and delete policies and policy rules. |
| Policy: Deploy | Ability to assign the device groups against which a policy is checked. |
| Events: Admin | Ability to create event symptoms. |
| Groups: Create | Ability to create and edit device and/or interface groups in NetMRI. |
| Groups: Result Sets | Ability to create and edit result sets. |
| Groups: Delete | Ability to remove device and/or interface groups. |
| Terminal: Modify Credentials | Allow the user to modify their own CLI credentials. This privilege restricts/allows users with the given role to change their own CLI credentials (**Settings** **–>** **User** **Admin** **–>** edit User **–>** **CLI** **Credentials**). By default, this tab is disabled for user accounts without this privilege. NetMRI roles that have this privilege by default include: **SysAdmin**, **UserAdmin** and **ChangeEngineer** **High**. For roles other than those noted, this privilege is manually assigned. |
| Terminal: Open Session | Allow users to activate Telnet/SSH sessions from the right-click menu. Should a user account not have this privilege, a popup message appears explaining that they do not have sufficient privileges to use this feature. NetMRI roles with this privilege include: **SysAdmin**, **UserAdmin,** **ChangeEngineer** **High** and **ChangeEngineer** **Medium**. For roles other than those noted, this privilege is assigned manually. |
| Terminal: Use NetMRI Creds | Allow the user to log in to devices using the default login/enable credential associated to the device *within* NetMRI. These are not vendor default credentials. If a terminal session is opened and the user has the appropriate privileges, the terminal shell queries the device credentials based on status and connection type and attempts a login using those if they are available; if not, a username and password are requested from the user. |
| Tools: All | Allows access to all available Network Tools in NetMRI. |
| Tools: Ping/Traceroute | Allows access to the NetMRI Ping/Traceroute Tool. |
| Tools: Path Diagnostics | Allows access to the NetMRI Path Diagnostic Tool. |
| Tools: SNMP Walk | Allows access to the NetMRI SNMP Walk Tool. |
| Tools: Cisco Cmd Tool | Allows access to the NetMRI Cisco Command Tool. |
| Tools: Discovery Diag | Allows access to the NetMRI Discovery Diagnostics Tool. |
| Tools: FindIT | Allows access to the NetMRI FindIT Tool. |


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**Note:** Privileges cannot be edited or deleted, and new Privileges cannot be created.

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The **Audit** **Log** (Settings icon **–>** **User** **Admin** **–>** **Audit** **Log**) lists all actions taken by user accounts that result in changes to NetMRI or any of the data sets the account manages. Log entries include the timestamp in which the action was taken, the User name, a description of the action and field change details when applicable.  
 Log entries are initially ordered by time, with the most recent at the top of the list. The table can be reordered to, for example, consolidate a particular user's actions. Alternatively, use quick searching to isolate specific log entries.

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Managing User Audit Logs for SSH Connection Attempts to Devices

As an aid to track what NetMRI or its users are doing on the network, you can also view the audit logs for all events in which NetMRI or its users attempt to use SSH or Telnet sessions to network devices. The amount of data collected for such events can substantially impact the size of the collected event database, so you can switch this feature on and off when needed and change the duration of these events being held in the database. Connection events that are covered by this log category include SSH/Telnet connections for Config Collection, Credential Collection, terminal emulation and Job Engine Run connections. Unknown connections may also be recorded, which will be events such as API calls.  
 To view and change these settings, go to Settings icon **–>** **General** **Settings** **–>** **Advanced** **Settings** **–>** **Notification** category –> **Log** **All** **CLI** **Sessions**. The default value is **On**. You can also choose the **No** **Commands** **Logged** option, which retains the session events but prevents any sensitive CLI data from being recorded.  
 An associated Advanced Setting, **Prune** **CLI** **Session** **Duration**, enables you to regularly prune the amount of CLI session data by setting the retention time for keeping that data in the Device Audit Log. The default setting is 7 days.

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Advanced User Administration Settings

Several important global NetMRI user account settings are located in the Advanced Settings section. To access them, go to Settings icon **–>** **General** **Settings** **–>** **Advanced** **Settings**, and then use the Next Page button to get to the** ****User** **Administration** category. Advanced User Administration settings determine the following:

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| **Password** **Expiration** | The number of days that a password is valid before requiring a new password for each account. The default is 90 days. Setting this value to zero sets any password to never expire.<br>For passwords to existing accounts, this setting only applies after a password is changed. For new account passwords, this setting applies immediately. |
| **Consecutive** **Failed** **Login** **Limit** | The number of successive failed login attempts allowed for any user account before the account is locked out. The default is zero—which allows an indefinite number of login attempts. Infoblox recommends setting **Consecutive** **Failed** **Login** **Limit** to a non-zero value. Ties to the **Lockout** **Duration** feature (below). |
| **Lockout** **Duration** | Determines the length of time that elapses before NetMRI accounts that experienced a failed series of logins can attempt once again to log in to the appliance. The default is zero, which indicates that there is no lockout time period. Infoblox recommends a value of 15 minutes or more. |
| **Password** **Length** | Determines the minimum permissible length of a password for admin accounts in NetMRI. Default minimum value is 8 characters. |
| **Password** **Numeric** | Determines whether passwords are required to have at least one numeric character in their composition. Default is **On**. |
| **Password** **Non** **Alpha-Numeric** | Determines whether passwords are required to have at least one non-alpha-numeric character (**&^%$#@!~) in their composition. Default is *Off**. |
| **Password** **Mixed-Case** | Determines whether passwords are required to have mixed upper/lower-case composition. Default is **Off**. |
| **Hide the system banners from non-admin users** | Hides the System Health and Capacity Limit banners from non-admin users. |