Use this window to set up a new role or edit the details
of an existing role.
The
Role Details window contains the
following areas:
Role setup area
Complete
this area as follows:
- Role Name
- Type a unique name for the role. If you are editing a role, you
cannot change the name.
Tip: When creating
ObjectServer objects, their names must begin with an uppercase or
lowercase letter, followed by uppercase or lowercase letters, numbers,
or underscore (_) characters, up to 40 characters in length. User,
group, and role names can be any text string up to 64 characters in
length and can include spaces. Names of ObjectServer objects are
case-sensitive.
- Role ID
- Specify a unique numerical identifier for this role. If you are
editing a role, you cannot change the role ID.
Details tab
Type
a meaningful description for the role, or update the description.
Permissions
tab
Use this tab to view all permissions that are currently
assigned to a role, and to grant and revoke permissions for Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus objects.
Permissions are shown in a tree structure. Complete the tab as follows:
- Add permission
- Click this button to grant permissions to the role. The Permission
Objects window opens. Complete this window as follows:
- Object Type
- Select the type of object to which you want to grant or revoke permissions.
- Available Objects
- The contents of this list are dependent on the object type selected. The Available
Objects list displays the objects for which permissions have not
been granted. To grant permissions to one or more objects, use the arrow keys
to move the objects to the Selected Objects list.
- To move all objects to the Selected Objects list,
click >>. To move a single object or multiple objects
to the Selected Objects list, select each object and
then click >. You can use the SHIFT key for consecutive
selections, or the CTRL key for non-consecutive selections.
- Selected Objects
- This list displays the objects for which permissions have been granted.
To revoke permissions for one or more objects, use the arrow keys to move
the objects to the Available Objects list.
- To move all objects to the Available Objects list,
click <<. To move a single object or multiple
objects to the Available Objects list, select each
object and then click <. You can use the SHIFT key
for consecutive selections, or the CTRL key for non-consecutive selections.
Tip: You can add multiple object permissions by selecting
each required object type in turn from the Object Type list,
and then adding the object to the Selected Objects list.
- OK
- Click this button to save the permissions configured for the role, and
close the Permission Objects window.
- Cancel
- Click this button to close the window without saving your changes.
- When you return to the Permissions tab
on the Role Details window, the permissions tree
is updated with your changes. The parent node shows the main object,
and the nested child nodes show associated subobjects. You can expand
these subobjects to view the associated SQL permissions; for example
ALTER, DELETE, and DROP. Select the check box associated with the
SQL permission to assign that permission to the role. Clear the check
box to revoke the permission.
- Delete permission
- From the permissions tree, select a parent or child node for which
you want to revoke permissions, and then click this button. The node
is deleted from the tree.
Saving your
role details
After creating or editing a role, you can save
or cancel the changes made by clicking the relevant button as follows:
- OK
- Click this button to save the role details and close the window.
New roles are added to the Roles pane.
- Cancel
- Click this button to close the window without saving your changes.