Pluribus UNUM 6.3.1

Manage Users

Selecting Menu Bar → → Manage Users displays the Manage Users dashboard. The Manage Users tab highlights.

There are features and functions used in UNUM Manager and UNUM Analytics that are common throughout the user interface (UI). Please refer to the Common Functions section for more information on the use of these functions and features.

The UNUM Configuration Manage Users module provides a convenient method of managing local UNUM Platform administrator and user accounts.

Details about all local accounts having access to UNUM are listed and additional accounts are added using this interface. 

UNUM Platform Configuration Manage Users Accounts

User Name and Password Requirements

User names and passwords have the following security requirements.

•User Names – Required

▪Are case sensitive.

▪Must be between 8 and 20 characters.

▪Must contain letters, numbers and have at least one special character, either an underscore, a period or a hyphen.

•Passwords – Required

▪Must consist of eight (8) characters, starting with an alphanumeric character.

▪Must contain letters, numbers, and at least one uppercase letter.

▪Must have at least one special character being and underscore, a period, a hyphen, and the following characters: !, @, #, &, $

Create Accounts

Additional local accounts are added to UNUM using Add User.

UNUM Platform Configuration Manage Users Create Administrator

To create a new account, enter a Username, Password, select the applicable Role, User Group, or the Default Page and Default Fabric.

Leaving the User Group blank enables Default Page and Default Fabric settings, as shown in the following examples. When selecting a User Group, the Default Page and Default Fabric selection choices are not available and appear grayed out. Use the Manage Groups, Create Group or Create vNET functions to create User Groups.

Note: To select a Default Fabric, a Fabric must exist. See Add Fabric for more information. To assign a User Group, a User Group must exist. Refer to the Manage Groups, Create Group or Create vNET functions for more information. 

Note: If the fabric doesn't exist yet, return later and edit the user account to set the default landing page.

Click Create to complete the account creation. 

The new local account, techpubs_user, confirms as being successfully created via an alert pop-up message and listed in the Local User Management dashboard with its assigned Default Page and Default Fabric and marked as active.

Note the assignment of the second new user account, techpubs_user_group, to the vNet_UNUM-vnet1_UG (example) group and its role of Admin, vNET and marked as active. Refer to Manage Groups for more information about creating and managing groups.

UNUM Manage Users Administrator Dashboard

Notes: 

A user may only be assigned to a User Group. Users are not assigned to a Fabric Resource Group (FRG). An FRG contains switches and devices.

Once a user account assigns to a group, it must remain in a group even if the original group no longer exists; otherwise, the user account appears in the dashboard as Inactive.

Reactivate users by assigning them to another group. Users can be moved from User Group to User Group without account interruption.

When the newly created User logs into to UNUM, they are required to update their passwords. Refer to the Login section for more information. After updating their password, the default page associated with their account opens.

The dashboard below shows a local user assigned to the Fabric Health page and a set Default Fabric.

UNUM Manage Users - New User Login Default Page

A local user assigned to a vNET User Group sees the following dashboard. The view is dependent on the group settings and privileges.

UNUM Manage Users - New User Assigned to a Group Default Page

Delete Accounts

To delete an account, click the cog icon icon and select Delete. Confirm the deletion clicking OK.

If you do not want to delete the account, click Cancel.

UNUM Manage Users Confirm Administrator Deletion

You receive a confirmation pop-up indicating the account has been successfully deleted.

Edit Accounts

To edit a User role, click the cog icon icon use and select Edit.

Notes:

The parameters available for change depend on the user account's role, local user, or group member user. 

While a local user may be re-assigned to a User Group (UG), a group member account cannot be re-assigned to a local account.

A user may only be assigned to a User Group. Users are not assigned to a Fabric Resource Group (FRG). An FRG contains switches and devices. 

UNUM Platform Configuration Manage Users Edit User

Make the required changes to the User role.

Click Submit to enter the changes or Cancel to return to the previous screen without making any changes.

The dashboard updates with the new changes.

Note: The current user account password must be entered to make the changes.

In the following example using the Edit function, the local account, techpubs_user, and the group member account, techpubs_user_group, are assigned to TechPubs_UG while retaining their original privileges, User and Admin, respectively.

UNUM Platform Configuration Manage Users - User Role Changed

User Role Limitations

There are several differences between an Administrator role and the User role.

UNUM Platform Configuration Manage Users - Roles

User Groups

vNET User Groups

Refer to the Understanding Virtual Networks (vNETS) section for more information about Fabric Virtualization.

vNET User Groups are a special case and the following conditions apply.

Note: As of July 2021, sFlow is no longer supported.

Change Password

Selecting Welcome <Account Name> → Change Password displays the Change Password configuration screen.

UNUM Welcome User Dashboard - Change Password

Select Change Password and enter the requisite information to change your password.

UNUM Change Password

Enter your Current Password, New Password, and Confirm New Password. 

Click Update to enter the new password or Cancel to return to the previous screen without making any changes.