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Editing accounts

Follow these steps to edit user account information:

  1. In the Users list, click the name of the user to edit.

  2. On the Edit page, modify settings as desired.

    Option Description
    Reset Password Allows users to reset their own password.
    User Preferences / Reset Preferences Revert all settings to their default values.
    Roles Assign one or more roles to the user. To edit or assign roles, you must Manager or ZenManager privileges.
    For more information, see Roles and permissions in Resource Manager.
    Groups Add the user to one or more Resource Manager groups.
    Email The email address of the user.
    Pager The phone number of the user's pager device.
    Default Page Size The default number of rows to include in Resource Manager tables. The default is 40 rows.
    Default Admin Role The default role for administered objects associated with the user.
    Network Map Start Object The IP address of a network, or the hostname or IP address of a device to display in the network map.
    Time Zone The time zone to use on all Resource Manager charts and graphs.
    Date format The date format to use on all Resource Manager charts and graphs.
    Time format The time format to use throughout Resource Manager.
    Set New Password / Confirm New Password The user password.

  3. In the Current Password for Admin field, enter the administrative user's password, and then click Save Settings.

Associating objects with specific users

You can associate any object in the system with a particular user, for monitoring or reporting purposes. Once associated with a user, you can then assign the user a specific role that applies to his privileges with respect to that object.

To create an object association:

  1. From ADVANCED > Settings, select Users in the left panel.
  2. Click the name of a user.

  3. From the Edit page, select Administered Objects in the left panel.

  4. Select an object type from the Administered Obects Action menu. You can add:

    • Device
    • Device class
    • System
    • Group
    • Location

  5. Specify the component you want to add as an administered object, and then click OK.

    The object appears in the Administered Devices list for the user.

  6. *Optional: *Change the role that is associated for this user on this object.

    Note: The default role assigned to the user for an administered object is specified by the Default Admin Role field on the Edit page.

  7. Click Save to save changes.

Adding administrators

You also can associate an object with a user by adding an administrator to the object. Perform the following:

  1. Navigate to the object you want to add to the user's list of administered objects.

  2. Select Device Administration.

    3. Click the Add Administrator icon in the Administrators area. The Add Administrator dialog box appears. 4. Select an administrator from the list and change the role if desired, then click SUBMIT.

The administrator appears in the object's Administrators list. The object is added to the administrator's Administered Objects list.

Changing the admin account password with the CLI

You can update the password of the Resource Manager admin account with the command-line interface.

Follow these steps:

  1. Log in to the Control Center master host as a user with serviced CLI privileges.

  2. Start an interactive session in a Zope container as the zenoss user.

    serviced service attach zope/0 su - zenoss

  3. Start the zenpass utility, and then answer the prompts with the new password:

    (zenoss) [zenoss@f3323bee63f7 ~]$ zenpass
Enter the new password for the Zenoss "admin" user: