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Reporting

This type of administrator profile is created for users who only create reports, but reports regarding any object in the database.

  1. Log on to the console with a superadministrator login.
  2. Then go to the Global Settings and the Administrator Groups node.
  3. Create a new group called Reporting .
  4. Select the following Security Profile node and in the Capabilities tab.
  5. Click the Edit > Properties properties.pngmenu item.
     The Properties pop-up window appears.
  6. In the Modify Capabilities tab select ALL View capabilities apart from the following:
    • View System Variables
    • View Security Profile
    • View Agent Configuration
    • View Direct Access
    • View Remote Control
  7. Then in addition check the following capabilities:
    • Manage Queries
    • Manage and Assign Reports
  8. Click OK to confirm and close the window.
  9. Then go to the Static Objects tab and add the following top nodes with the following access rights via the Properties pop-up window:
    • Device Groups top node with Read and Assign Access: Allow and Write Access: Deny
    • Queries and Reports top nodes with Read, Write and Assign Access: Allow
  10. In the Dynamic Objects tab add via the Properties pop-up window all queries of the BMC Client Management database folder with access rights Read Access: Allow and Write and Assign Access: Deny apart from the following which will also be added but with different access types:
    • All Devices and All Device Groups queries with Read and Assign Access: Allow and Write Access: Deny
    • All Query Folders and All Queries , as well as All Report Folders and All Reports queries with Read, Write and Assign Access: Allow .

A few points regarding this configuration:

If you have different report creation profiles you can restrict the view to the necessary objects the profiles create reports for. However, ensure that you provide them with the same access as previously to queries and device groups, because reports are based on either one of these object types. If you do not provide access to the device groups, no reports can be generated being assigned to a device group instead of being based on a query.

 

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BMC Client Management 12.1