User Administration

Working with user information, creating new users and deleting users is a privilege that is allowed for an admin user. Normal users will not get to see the User Administration screens.

From the User Administration screen, you can :

• View users list
• Create new users
  • Configure e-mail address for users
• Edit user configurations
• Delete users

User Groups / Access Levels

There are two types of users that can access the PatchQuest system :

• Administrator - the super user who has administrator privileges and can perform all the patch management operations in PatchQuest (read and write operations)
• Normal user - the user who has only read-only access to the administration console. The users under this user-group cannot perform any patch management functions

Viewing users list

The screen displays a list of users that are configured to access the PatchQuest web administration UI; along with their access rights. By default, 2 users are pre-configured, with the following login names :

• admin - with administrator rights
• guest - normal user privileges

The username 'admin' cannot be deleted from the system. The password for 'admin' can be reset. The access level or user group cannot be altered for admin users.

Creating new users

Any user with administrator privileges set for the PatchQuest system, can create new users. To do so, click on the 'Create User' button. From here, specify the following parameters :

• login name (user name) - can be any unique name e.g. johndoe
• password - password for logging in. This can be the same as the login name, but it recommended to specify a different password (select the appropriate radio button)
• confirm password - re-enter the same password for confirmation
• access level / user group - select from 2 options (Administrator or Normal User)
• e-mail - e-mail address of the user, to which reports and patch management task results and their status, can be e-mailed

Click on the 'Add' button to add the user. This configuration will appear in the User List in the previous screen.

Editing User Configurations

To edit configurations for the users created, click on the desired username in the users list table, present in the user administration screen. From this screen, you can alter the following :

• access level / user group - a username with normal user privileges can be altered to have administrator privileges

• reset password - selecting this option will change user password to be the same as the login name

• e-mail - e-mail address associated to this username

Make the desired changes and click on the 'Update' button.

Note :

• The 'Edit' option is available only to the user who is in the 'Administrator' user group

• For admin users, access levels cannot be altered

• The default e-mail address of the admin user will automatically appear in the Scan, Download and Deployment configuration screens, when the 'E-mail' option is checked

Deleting users

In order to delete users, select the login names from the users list, and click the 'Delete' button. Users in the Administrator user group can only perform the delete operation.