Setting Up AIM Users

This chapter describes how to add users to Advanced Insight Manager (AIM). Users are able to view only incidents and intelligence messages to which they have appropriate permissions. Permissions are based on the user group(s) to which users are assigned and the association of those user groups to specified device groups. For more information about configuring user groups, see Advanced Insight Solutions Overview. For more information about configuring device groups, see Creating Device Groups.

To create and manage AIM users, you must have AIM Admin Settings privileges.

You can assign permissions that allow users access only to a subset of AIM operations. If the Multi-Site license is present, allowing multiple organizations, users have access to organizations and the devices contained in them based on their user group and device group associations.

Incidents and Intelligence Updates assigned to users are filtered based on the user’s user group and device group associations.

An AIM user must have the following:

• Unique user name
• Unique Password
• Privileges that determine the operations that can be performed

The password for the administrator should not match the username, and should not be a word that can be easily guessed.

In general, AIM passwords should:

• Be easy to remember so that users are not tempted to write them down.
• Contain up to 32 characters, using at least two of the four defined character sets (uppercase, lowercase, numeric, other). The characters in the set "other" are those that can be entered using a single keystroke, or a keyboard character accessed using the Shift key, that do not fall into any of the other three groups.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• Default AIM User Account
• Understanding AIM Ownership
• AIM User Privileges
• Adding a AIM User
• Editing a User
• Using the User Table
• Deleting a User