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Managing access to devices

Access-control to devices is disabled by default and does not take effect until you enable it.

When devices are initially managed by Lenovo XClarity Administrator, a predefined set of role groups have permission to access the devices by default. This predefined set is empty by default until it is configured.

You change the role groups that can access specific managed devices. When permission is given to certain role groups, only users that are members of those role groups can see and act on those specific devices.

  • Controlling access to specific devices
    When devices are initially managed by Lenovo XClarity Administrator, a predefined set of role groups have permission to access the devices by default. You change the role groups that can access specific managed devices. When permission is given to certain role groups, only users that are members of those role groups can see and act on those specific devices.
  • Disabling resource-access control
    You disable access control for all devices or specific devices so that all users can view and act on those devices.
  • Changing the default permissions
    There are two settings that determine whether role groups can access devices when they are initially managed by Lenovo XClarity Administrator: public access and role groups. The public-access setting determines whether all or only a specific set of role groups can access the target devices. By default, this setting is set to Yes, which means that all role groups can access the target devices. You can change the default behavior by changing the public-access setting to No and then selecting the set of role groups that can access the target devices