2.2 Managing Administrator Rights

The following sections help you manage existing administrator accounts and their assigned rights:

2.2.1 Assigning Super Administrator Rights

A Super Administrator has all rights to perform all actions in ZENworks Control Center. For more information about all of the rights that a Super Administrator has, see Section 2.3, Rights Descriptions. If you grant an administrator Super Administrator rights, any assigned rights that have been allowed, denied, or not set are overridden.

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the Configuration tab.

  2. In the Administrators panel, click the administrator’s name.

  3. Select the Super Administrator check box.

  4. Click Apply.

2.2.2 Assigning Additional Rights

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the Configuration tab.

  2. Click the administrator in the Name column of the Administrators panel.

  3. In the Assigned Roles panel, click Add, then select the rights you want to assign.

  4. Fill in the fields.

    For more information, see Section 2.3, Rights Descriptions.

  5. Click OK.

You can also use the admin-rights-set command in zman to assign additional rights for an administrator account. For more information, see Administrator Commands in the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Command Line Utilities Reference.

2.2.3 Modifying Assigned Rights

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the Configuration tab.

  2. Click the administrator in the Name column of the Administrators panel.

  3. In the Assigned Rights panel, select the check box next to the assigned right.

  4. Click Edit, then modify the settings.

    For more information, see Section 2.3, Rights Descriptions.

  5. Click OK.

2.2.4 Removing Assigned Rights

  1. In ZENworks Control Center, click the Configuration tab.

  2. Click the administrator in the Name column of the Administrators pane.

  3. Select the check box next to the assigned right.

  4. Click Delete.

You can also use the admin-rights-delete command in zman to delete assigned rights for an administrator account. For more information, see Administrator Commands in the ZENworks 10 Configuration Management Command Line Utilities Reference.