Managing users and preferences

You manage user accounts through their user preferences. The most important preference is the user's role, which determines which tasks the user can perform. The user's role is defined by membership in a group, whose members all receive the same set of permissions. For more information, see User-roles and Managing-roles-and-access-restrictions.

You can access user preferences through the System tab. For information about setting a user's preferences, see Setting-or-changing-user-preferences.

Users should be authenticated through an external user database, such as LDAP or Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD). However, by default you are authenticated with the local BMC VaraLogix Q Deployment Automation database. You must configure the system to connect to your user database. For more information about configuring these options, see Configuring-LDAP-authentication and Configuring-MSAD-authentication. For configuring any local users, see Configuring-local-authentication.

A special user, the _system user, has a set of preferences that define system-wide properties. For more information, see Understanding-system-preferences.

You can view the system records of a user's actions by generating a user history report, under Deployment on the Report tab. For more information, see Creating-and-running-reports.