The Operations Administrator monitors the status of the appliance and can reboot the appliance.
On some pages, it may appear the administrator can edit data, but the change cannot be saved. A message like the following will display: Authorization is required for this request.
NOTE: This user can be a non-interactive user; that is, an automated script or external monitoring system.
The Security Policy Administrator configures the security policies that govern the access rights to accounts and assets, including the requirements for checking out passwords, such as the maximum duration, if password or SSH key reasons are required, if emergency access is allowed, and so on. This user may not know any details about the assets.
This user configures time restrictions for entitlements and who can request, approve and review access requests.
- Creates account groups, asset groups, and user groups.
- Creates entitlements.
- Configures access request policies.
- Adds users or user groups to entitlements to authorize those accounts to request passwords.
- Can assign linked accounts to users for entitlement access policy governance.
On some pages, it may appear the administrator can edit data, but the change cannot be saved. A message like the following will display: Authorization is required for this request.
Preparing systems for management
Before you add systems to SPP (Adding an asset), you must ensure they are properly configured.
Generally, to prepare an asset for SPP:
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Create a functional account (called a "service" account in SPP) on the asset and assign it a password or an SSH key, if the platform supports SSH keys.
- Grant the service account sufficient permissions.
- Test the service account connectivity.
- Configure the security protocol.
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For platforms that support SSL server certificate validation, add the server’s signing authority certificate to the Trusted Certificates store in SPP. For more information, see Trusted CA Certificates.
The following topics can help you prepare your hosts for management by SPP:
SPP supports a variety of platforms. For more information, see Supported platforms.