Configure user for impersonation

Impersonation enables a user to assume another user account. The user can then perform operations that are actually only permitted for the other account. This configuration must be set for each tenant.

Prerequisite

You have the Technical configuration administrator function privilege.

Procedure

  1. Log in to User Management.

    Click the link that was provided to you or that you have saved as a bookmark in your browser, for example, http://myServer:1080/#myTenant/adminUsers. The Log in dialog opens.

  2. Enter the name of the infrastructure tenant in the Tenant Tenant field, for example, master.
  3. Enter your user name and your password.
  4. Click the user for which you want to allow impersonation.
  5. Click Privileges. The list of function privileges is displayed.
  6. Activate the Impersonation function privilege.
  7. Log out.
  8. Log in to User Management for the relevant tenant.
  9. Click Configuration Configuration.
  10. Click the arrow next to Users.
  11. Click General.
  12. Click Edit Edit.
  13. Click in the Impersonation target users field.
  14. Enter the users for which you want to allow impersonation as a comma-separated list.

    Warning

    If the ARIS server was updated, make sure to reenter the user names for all operational tenants in the Impersonation target users field again.

  15. Click Save Save.

You have allowed users to use impersonation.

See also

What is impersonation?