Lab 2.4: Add a user to a custom role

Note

Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes

Lab environment access

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Tasks

Add a user to a custom role to give them specific permissions to a resource group.

1. On the left navigation area, click USER MANAGEMENT > Users.
2. Click the Add button.
3. From the Auth Provider list, select the authentication method you want to use for this user. For this lab, we will leave the default selection local (Local) unchanged.

Important: A user must belong to a group or have an assigned role, or authentication will fail.

1. In the User Name field, type the user name for this new user. In the Full Name field, type a name to identify this user.

   Name: nsadmin

   Full Name: Network Security Manager

2. In the Password and Confirm Password fields, type the password for this new locally-authenticated user.

   Password: nsadmin Confirm Password: nsadmin

1. Scroll down the screen and select NSManager from the Available box of the Roles list and move it to the right in Selected box.

   Roles: NSManager

1. You aren’t required to associate a user group at this point; you can do that later if you want.

Note

User’s access to certain parts of the BIG-IQ user interface depends on which role they are assigned.

1. Click the Save & Close button.

These users now have the privileges associated with the role(s) you selected.

Next, we will test the access privileges for the new user with the custom role.