Managing users of a device

Devices can be assigned to primary or secondary users. In this view, you can assign or unassign these types of users to the selected device by creating a relationship between the two objects. For more information about the types of users, refer to the User-types topic.

A User is any person that has a "relation" with the respective computer, that is, a user that can log on to the Device to execute operations on it. Every time a user-device relation is modified, the user is automatically assigned any missing operational rules that come with the new relation or be unassigned form those not conforming to his new relation.

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To create a relationship between user and device

  1. Select Add Relationship user_plus.png.
    The User Relationship window appears.

  2. Click Select an existing user user_plus.png next to the User box.
    The Assign to User window opens on the screen.

    Note

    It will show you all users that can be assigned to the device.

  3. Select the desired user from one of the available list views.
  4. Click OK .
  5. In the Relation Type box select the type of the user, that is, if he is to be a primary or secondary user of the device.
    You can only add one primary but as many secondary users as you want to a device.
  6. Clear the Disable automatic relationship update from agent running on the device box, if you want the agent to automatically update the primary user for the device when he changed.
  7. Click OK to confirm the device user.

You have now added a user to the device. The user will now be always updated on all operational rules that are assigned/unassigned from its device.

 

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