Oracle VM Manager: User and Group Management

Here we will explore how to manage users and groups and will divide the section into the following two parts:

• Managing Users
• Managing Groups

This function is only available to administrators, so use this role prudently. During the installation of the Oracle VM Manager, a default admin account is created. And with this admin's account we can go about managing the users and groups.

Managing Users

Here it is possible to create new users, delete older or unwanted ones, assign different roles to those users, reset user password, and so on. Let's break it up into a few topics and have a look at it.

• Creating a User
• Viewing or editing details
• Changing a role
• Deleting a User

Creating a User

To create a User, perform the following:

1. On the Administrator's page click User tab and then click on the Create button:

2. Enter the necessary information such as:

° Username (avoid using user, manager, and administrator as username)
° Password
° Retype Password
° First Name
° Last Name
° Valid Email address

3. We can select the account status, it could either be locked or unlocked and is only accessible when it's unlocked. We can lock an account for security reasons by using the status Locked. We can grant the following roles to this newly created user--User, Manager, or Administrator.

4. Then select the Server Pools for this user and also select the group to which this user should belong to.

5. Click on the Confirm button to confirm the information and we will get this information:

As we can see in the preceding screenshot this is a plain user and has no groups or servers assigned to it. However this was unlocked and was granted a User role.