As a Secure Configuration Manager administrator, you can configure the Dashboard settings and assign access rights to other users.
Click your user name and select Configuration in the Kibana menu bar. The Dashboard Settings page has General Settings, Geolocation, and Authorization options.
As an administrator, you can configure authorization settings for other user roles.
To configure authorization settings for user roles:
Click Authorization in the Dashboard Settings page.
Select the user role for which you need to configure the authorizations settings from the User Roles list.
Click Edit in the Groups tab. The corresponding groups associated with the user role you have selected in step 1 are displayed in this list. Select the groups for which the user role you have selected can view the data, and click Save.
Click Edit in the Templates tab. The corresponding templates associated with the user role you have selected in step 1 are displayed in this list. Select the templates for which the user role you have selected can view the data, and click Save.
For example, if you are configuring authorization settings for the NetIQ Windows Admin user, you can select the Windows group from the Groups list, and select only the Windows templates from the Templates list. This results in the NetIQ Windows Admin users viewing only the data about Windows groups and from Windows templates.
NOTE:The Administrator role is not displayed in the User Roles list to select for configuring authorization settings, because the users belonging to this role will have full privileges. As an administrator, you can view the data from all the template runs on all the groups.
The Dashboard comprises three geolocation charts, which display compliance data in world map view. For these chart to be functional, you must set the geographical locations of your environment, so that the data is displayed in these charts.
To configure the geolocation settings as an administrator:
Click Geolocation in the Dashboard Settings page.
A table with already existing geolocation mappings, if any, is displayed.
To add a new geolocation mapping, click the New icon adjacent to the table.
Select geolocation window is displayed.
Specify the following information:
Location: Name of the location that you want to add as a geolocation.
IP Range: The IP address range of the endpoints that you want to monitor and view the data for.
NOTE:You must specify a value for at least one of the above two fields.
Latitude: Latitude of the location.
Longitude: Longitude of the location.
Click the Save icon.
The geolocation mapping you added is displayed in the Geolocation Mapping table.
You can edit or delete the geolocation mappings in the table by clicking the Edit or Delete icons that are present adjacent to the geolocation mapping record.
You can also add multiple geolocation mappings to this table by following the same procedure.
You can also import and export geolocation mappings as Microsoft Excel files. Click the Import icon to import geolocation mappings that you might have already saved in your computer and want to apply those mappings to the Dashboard. Also, you can export the existing geolocation mappings by clicking the Export icon.
Click Apply Geolocation after adding the necessary geolocation mappings.
This updates the existing geolocation data, which is already synchronized to the Dashboard database from Secure Configuration Manager, and enables you to view the geolocation data in the charts. After a geolocation mapping is applied, any new data that is synchronized to the Dashboard database will be displayed in the geolocation charts.
A confirmation message is displayed. Click Apply to apply the geolocation mappings.
After configuring the geolocation settings, you can view the geolocation charts in the Dashboard populated with data whenever applicable.
To configure the general Dashboard settings, click General in the Dashboard Settings page. You can configure the following settings:
This is the name of the dashboard that will be displayed when users log in to the Dashboard. For more information about these dashboards, see Viewing the Secure Configuration Manager Dashboard.
This is the time interval at which the user sessions are revalidated. The Dashboard communicates with Secure Configuration Manager at this interval and validates the user whose session is presently on.
This is the time interval at which the Dashboard connects to the Secure Configuration Manager database and receives fresh data.
This is the time interval till which the Dashboard retains the data in the Dashboard Database.
NOTE:When you update the above three fields, the new value is applied only after the current intervals are completed. If you want to update the values immediately, restart the Elasticsearch 2.0.0 (NetIQDatabaseService) service.
Click Save after you update the value in any of these fields.
If you update these values, new values will be applied only for a new session of the Dashboard. If you want the new values to be applied immediately, log out of the Dashboard and log in again.
Click Reset built-in dashboards to reset any updates done to the four built-in dashboards. Any customization done to any of these dashboards will be overridden, and the dashboards will be set to the default configurations. Any custom dashboards you might have created will not be affected by this operation.