1.4 Getting Started

Privileged Account Manager allows administrators to grant and manage the user access to the required server through remote desktop, or SSH. To manage privileged account on a Linux, UNIX, application, or a database server you must define rules in Privileged Account Manager. A typical work flow of Privileged Account Manager is as following:

 

Tasks

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  1. Discover the privileged accounts in the configured target systems

For more information about discovering, see Section 2.0, Discovering Privileged Accounts.

  1. Planning

For more information about deployment planning, see Getting Started.

  1. Install Privileged Account Manager and required packages for your enterprise environment.

For more information about installing Privileged Account Manager, see Privileged Account Manager Installation Guide.

  1. Assign proper rights to Administrators by using the Framework Manager console.

For information about Framework users and assigning rights to them, see Section 4.0, Managing Users and Groups.

  1. Register the host machines by using the Hosts console.

For more information about registering hosts, see Section 3.0, Managing Framework Hosts.

  1. Create a rule/ policy for a user role that is defined in the LDAP directory.

For more information about different entities that create rule, see Access Control and Command Control.

  1. Configure the reporting event settings by using the Reports console.

For information about configuring audit settings for compliance purpose, see Section 8.0, Reports.