Specifying objects

When creating or modifying authorization profiles, in addition to restricting access to specific features, you can also restrict access to specific PATROL Agents, Computer System Configuration Items (CSCI), devices, and other objects. You specify this granular level of access through the selection of objects on the Objects tab of the Profile Details page.

This topic describes the following information about specifying objects: 

Overview of the Objects tab

The Objects tab is where you specify the object restrictions for the authorization profile, as shown in the following image and described the table that follows. 

Object filtering

For each category, the Objects tab always displays the available types of objects for each category. The data sources determine the objects that exist for a selected type. When you select a category, type, and source, you can then specify individual objects available to the user groups in the authorization profile. The following table lists the types, sources, and objects available for each category.

Categories	Types	Source	Accessible objects
TrueSight Presentation
	Applications	Host name or IP address of the TrueSight Presentation Server
	Devices
	Event Groups		Using event groups to filter events
	Groups		BMC recommends that as solution administrator when you specify a group type object in an authorization profile, ensure that you include group objects belonging to the same tenant in the authorization profile. For example, there are two objects device-A1 and device-A2 under tenant-A. As a solution administrator, if you want to create a group GA to include device-A1 and device-A2, ensure that the group GA belongs to tenant-A.
	Monitoring Policy Configuration Types		Any combination of the following   configuration types: Agent Configuration Configuration Variables Solution Configuration
	PATROL Agent ACLs		PATROL Agents specified in a PATROL Agent ACL
	PATROL Solutions		Solutions that can be configured by creating Infrastructure Management policies
TrueSight Infrastructure
	CIs	Host name or IP address of Infrastructure Management servers
	Component Folders
	Event Folders
	Monitor Groups
	Views

How object hierarchy affects monitoring permissions

Providing access to an object enables access to objects that are subordinate to it, as detailed in the following table:

The following example illustrates how the event group hierarchy affects the monitoring permissions of the users in the authorization profile:

Event group hierarchy:

  By_Location
	   America
    	North America
    	South America
	   Asia
    	India
    	  Metro
    		Delhi
    		Mumbai
    	  Non Metro
    		Pune
    		Chandigarh
    	China

If America is the selected object, then users have access to America and its child event groups: North America and South America. If the selected object is China, which has no child event groups, then users have access to it. When child event groups will be added under China, users will have access to them as well.

To illustrate how the object hierarchy affects the monitoring permissions of the users in the authorization profile, observe how the objects listed under Selected objects map to the objects listed in Monitoring permissions, which lists the objects that users could access in the TrueSight console.

Selected objects

Monitoring permissions

Related topics

Role-based access

Getting started with infrastructure monitoring

Managing authorization profiles