Creating a local user

You can manually create user accounts in the local (embedded) authentication server. Local user accounts are used to log in to Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator and authorize access to resources.

Procedure

To create a local user, complete the following steps.

1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click Administration () > Security, and then click Local Users in the left navigation to display the Local Users card.
   
   
   
2. Click the Create icon () to create a user. The Create New User dialog is displayed.
3. Fill in the following information in the dialog.
   • Enter a unique user name. You can specify up to 32 characters, including alphanumeric, period (.), dash (-), and underscore (_) characters.
     Note

     User names are not case sensitive.
   • Enter the new and confirm passwords. By default, passwords must contain 8 – 256 characters and must meet the following criteria.
     Important

     It is recommended that you use strong passwords of 16 or more characters.
     • (1) Must contain at least one alphabetic character, and must not have more than two sequential characters, including sequences of alphabetic characters, digits, and QWERTY keyboard keys (for example, “abc”, “123”, and “asd” are not allowed)
     • (2) Must contain at least one number
     • (3) Must contain at least two of the following characters.
       • Uppercase alphabetic characters (A – Z)
       • Lowercase alphabetic characters (a – z)
       • Special characters ; @ _ ! ' $ & +

       White space characters are not allowed.

     • (4) Must not repeat or reverse the user name
     • (5) Must not contain more than two of the same characters consecutively (for example, “aaa”, “111”, and “...” are not allowed)
   • (Optional) Specify contact information for the user account, including the full name, email address, and phone number.
     Tip

     For the full name, you can specify up to 128 characters, including letters, numbers, spaces, periods, hyphens, apostrophes, and commas.
4. Click the User Groups tab, and select the user groups to which this user is to be a member.
   Tip

   If a user group is not selected, the OperatorGroup is assigned by default (see Creating user groups).
5. Click Create.

   The user account is added to the table.