3 Managing User Accounts

This chapter explains user account management and assignment of report and alert ownership.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• Creating User Accounts

• Editing User Accounts

• Reassigning Object Ownership

3.1 Creating User Accounts

You must manually create Oracle Business Activity Monitoring user accounts in the Login Management page. Most user accounts are automatically added when they access the web applications based on their roles.

User accounts created with login names that are not currently a valid Windows login display in the Login management list with an exclamation mark icon to indicate that they are not valid. These users do not have access to the Oracle Business Activity Monitoring applications. This may be an indication that domain authentication is not accessible from the server. Otherwise these user accounts should be edited or deleted.

WARNING:

User accounts are case sensitive and must match case exactly with the accounts in the domain server.

To create a user account:

1. Select Login Management from the list.

2. Click Create.

3. Enter the following information in the fields:

   • Login Name. User name using the format DOMAIN/username.

   • Full Name. The user's full name. A user must have both first and last name in order for alerts to work properly.

   • Email Account. Full email address. For example [e-mail]

   • Preferred Delivery Order. Specify the user preferred delivery order for email. The syntax is: SMTP IIM where SMTP is email account and IIM is Active Messenger. Active Messenger is a deprecated feature and should be listed second.

4. Click Create.

3.2 Editing User Accounts

You can edit any of the values for a user account. For more information on syntax used in each field, see "Creating User Accounts".

To edit a user account:

1. Select Login Management from the list.

2. Select a user account from the list.

3. Click Edit.

4. Edit any of the values in the fields.

5. Click Save.

3.3 Reassigning Object Ownership

Objects, such as reports and alerts, owned by a user can be assigned to another user. Before changing or deleting users, you might want to reassign reports and alerts owned by them to other users. This action assigns all objects associated with a user to another user.

To reassign object ownership:

1. Select Login Management from the list.

2. Select the user in the list that currently owns the objects you will reassign.

3. Click Reassign Ownership.

   The Select Names dialog displays a list of users.

4. Select a user account in the list that will become the owner of the objects.

5. Click OK.

   Reports are moved to a subfolder named after the user name.

   Alerts are moved and a zero is added to the name if there is a already an alert by the original name. If the alert needs an item updating or specifying, an exclamation mark displays on the alert icon.

   The owner is changed for shared reports and folders.