Editing User Information
Complete these steps to edit a CMDB user:
- From the left panel folders, select a User from the Users folder.
- Click Edit.
- In the Edit User dialog box:
- Add the User Name and user profile information including User Name, Full Name, Job Title, and Company.
- Click the drop-down to select the Importance - "Important", "Critical" or "Mission Critical".
- Select a Default Role for the user.
See Role Settings for a list of default roles and permission. You can also create new roles, which will be available in this menu after you create them. - For Session Timeout, enter the number of minutes after which an inactive user will be logged out.
- For User Lockout, enter the number of minutes the user will be unable to log into the system after three successive authentication failures.
- For Password Reset, enter the number of days after which a user’s current password for logging in to the system will automatically expire.
If left blank, the user's password will never expire. - Enter the Employee ID of the user.
- Select the Manager to which this user belongs.
- For System Administrator, select Yes.
- If this System Admin user should be allowed to approve de-anonymization requests, enable De-obfuscation Approver.
- For Password, select Local or External.
If you select Local, enter and then reconfirm the user password. See Authentication Settings for more information about using external authentication.
Note: If more than one authentication profile is associated with a user, then the servers will be contacted one-by-one until a connection to one of them is successful. Once a server has been contacted, if the authentication fails, the process ends, and the user is notified that the authentication failed.
- Click Save.
You can also use the following functions on the Actions menu:
- Unlock - to unlock a user, select the user from the list and click Action >Unlock.
- Add to Watchlist- select the user from the list and click Action > Add to Watchlist. In the Add to Watch List dialog, select the Organization and Expires on time. Make the selections from the list using the > button and save.