One Identity Safeguard for Privileged Passwords 2.5 - Administration Guide

Accounts tab

The Accounts tab displays the accounts assigned to the selected partition.

Table 123: Partitions: Accounts tab properties

Property	Description
Name	The account name.
Parent	The partition in which the asset where the account resides.
Profile	The name of the profile that manages the account.
Service Account	A check in this column indicates that the account is a service account.
Password Request	A check in this column indicates that password release requests are enabled for the account.
Session Request	A check in this column indicates that session access requests are enabled for the account.
Needs a Password	Displays if a password is not set for the account. For more information, see Checking, changing, or setting an account password.
Description	Descriptive information entered when the account was added.

Use these buttons on the details toolbar to manage the accounts assigned to the selected partition.

Related Topics

Adding assets to a partition

Removing assets from a partition

Profiles tab

The Profiles tab lists the profiles associated with this partition. For more information, see About profiles.

Click  Create Profile from the details toolbar to add a profile to the selected partition.

Use these buttons on the details toolbar to manage your partitions profiles.

Related Topics

Assigning assets or accounts to a partition profile

How do I see which assets and/or accounts are governed by a profile

About profiles

A profile is a set of configuration settings for a set of accounts in a partition or directory.

When you create a new partition or directory, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords creates a corresponding default profile with default schedules and rules. You can create multiple profiles to govern the accounts assigned to a partition or directory. Both assets and accounts are assigned to the scope of a profile.

For example, suppose you have an asset with 12 accounts and you configure the profile to check and change passwords every 60 days. If you want the password managed for one of those accounts every 7 days, you can create another profile and add the individual account to the new profile. Now, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords will check and change all the passwords on this asset every 60 days except for this account, which will change every 7 days.

Implicit and explicit association

It is important to understand the difference between implicit and explicit assignments to a profile.

Implicit associations

Safeguard for Privileged Passwords makes implicit assignments. For example, when you add an asset to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords, it automatically adds the asset to the default partition and assigns it to the scope of the default profile. This is called implicit association. Assets implicitly inherit the partition's default profile. Similarly, accounts inherit their parent asset’s profile. That means when you add an account to an asset, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords implicitly adds that account to its asset’s profile.

Later if you reassign the asset to another profile, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords automatically reassigns all of the asset’s associated accounts to the new profile.

Explicit associations

Safeguard for Privileged Passwords allows you to explicitly add an asset or an account to a specific profile. When you explicitly assign an asset to a profile, it overrides the implicit inheritance from the partition so the asset's profile is no longer determined by its partition. Similarly, when you explicitly assign an account to a profile, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords overrides the implicit inheritance from the asset and the account’s profile is no longer determined by its asset.

Now if you reassign the asset to another profile, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords will not reassign the asset’s associated accounts that were explicitly assigned to the old profile.

Resetting the default profile

If you set another profile as the default, Safeguard for Privileged Passwords implicitly reassigns all assets and their associated accounts to that new default, but it will not reassign any assets or accounts that you have explicitly assigned to a profile. Once the implicit inheritance is broken, changing a partition's (or directory's) default profile has no effect on the scope of a profile. For more information, see Setting a default partition profile or Setting a default directory profile.

Discovered Accounts tab

A partition's Discovered Accounts tab allows you to add accounts to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords as a result of any account discovery jobs that have run against the assets in the selected partition. For more information, see Account and service discovery job workflow.

The Discovered Accounts tab displays the following for the selected partition.

Use these buttons on the details toolbar to manage the discovered accounts.