BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Controlling access to servers and server groups

You can use rights to grant people access to servers and server groups, allowing them to perform tasks such as starting and stopping servers.

Depending on your system configuration and security concerns, you may want to limit server management to the BusinessObjects Enterprise administrator. However, you may need to provide access to other people using those servers. Many organizations have a group of IT professionals dedicated to server management. If your server team needs to perform regular server maintenance tasks that require them to shut down and start up servers, you need to grant them rights to the servers. You may also want to delegate BusinessObjects Enterprise server administration tasks to other people. Or you may want different groups within your organization to have control over their own server management.

To grant access to a server or server group

1. Go to the Servers or Server Groups management area of the CMC.
2. Select the server or server group you want to grant access to.
3. Click the Rights tab.
4. Click Add/Remove to add users or groups that you want to give access to the selected server or server group.

The Add/Remove page appears.

5. In the Select Operation list, select Add/Remove Groups, Add Users, or Remove Users.
6. Select the user or group you want to grant access to the specified server or server group.

Tip:    If you have many users on your system, select the Add Users operation; then use the "Look for" field to search for a particular account.

7. Click OK.
8. On the Rights tab, change the Access Level for each user or group, as required.
9. To choose specific rights, choose Advanced.

Note:    For complete details on the predefined access levels and advanced rights, see the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Reference Guide.

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