It is the responsibility of the Security Policy Administrator to add entitlements to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords.
To add an entitlement
- Navigate to Administrative Tools | Entitlements.
- Click Add Entitlement from the toolbar.
- In the Entitlement dialog, provide information in each of the tabs:
Navigate to Administrative Tools | Entitlements| (add or edit entitlement).
On the General tab, specify the following information about the entitlement.
Table 85: Entitlement: General tab properties
Name |
Enter a unique name for the entitlement.
Limit: 50 characters |
Description |
Enter descriptive text about the entitlement.
Limit: 255 characters |
Priority |
The priority of this entitlement compared to other entitlements.
If a user desires to access an account in the scope of two different entitlements, then the entitlement with the highest priority (that is, the lowest number) takes precedence. For more information, see About priority precedence. |
An entitlement defines which users are authorized to checkout passwords for accounts in the scope of its policies. A policy defines scope (that is, which accounts) and the rules for checking out passwords, such as the duration, how many approvals are required, and so on.
It is possible for an account to be governed by more than one entitlement, or is in the scope of more than one policy within an entitlement. Safeguard for Privileged Passwords uses both entitlement and policy priorities to determine which policy to use for a password release. Safeguard for Privileged Passwords first considers the entitlement priority, then the priorities of access request policies within that entitlement.
Example scenario:
- Entitlement A (priority 1)
- Policy: Week Day Policy.
- Policy time restrictions: Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- Scope: AccountX
- Entitlement B (priority 2)
- Policy 1: Sunday AM (priority 1)
- Policy time restrictions: Sunday 8:00 to 12:00.
- Scope: AccountX
- Policy 2: Sunday PM (priority 2)
- Policy time restrictions: Sunday 13:00 to 17:00.
- Scope: AccountX
Notice that AccountX is in the scope of all three of these policies.
If a user requests the password for AccountX for Sunday at 4 p.m., Safeguard for Privileged Passwords first considers Entitlement A because it is priority 1. When it determines that the policy time restrictions prevent the password release, it then considers Entitlement B.
Safeguard for Privileged Passwords first considers Entitlement B's priority 1 policy. When it determines that the time restrictions prevent the password release, it then considers Policy 2. Once the request is satisfied, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords grants the request.
To change an entitlement's priority
- Select the priority number in the entitlement list.
- Enter another number.
To modify a policy's priority
- In Entitlements, select an entitlement and switch to the Access Request Policies tab.
- Double-click a policy, or select a policy and click Edit Access Policy.
- Enter or select a new priority number.
- Click the Refresh button.
Time restrictions control when the entitlement is in effect relative to the user's time zone. For more information, see About time restrictions.
On the Time Restrictions tab, specify the time restriction properties for the entitlement.
Navigate to Administrative Tools | Entitlements| (add or edit entitlement).
Table 86: Entitlement: Time Restrictions tab properties
Use Time Restrictions |
Select this option to enforce time restrictions. |
Daily calendar |
Select and drag the hours you want to allow. |
Have the Entitlement Expire on Date and Time |
Select this option to enforce an expiration date, then enter the date and time.
When an entitlement expires, all the access request policies associated with the entitlement also expire. To set an expiration date on a policy, see Creating an access request policy. |