User management and role assignment

User management ensures that only authorized users can obtain information and perform role-specific actions.

The role-based access to IT Inventory is controlled by modeling persons responsible and the user groups defined. The user groups need to be entered in the configuration file security.xml.

During login, the system verifies if the user is a system manager, for example. All IT systems that the user is responsible for are displayed in the Home module under My IT systems in the form of a list of links to the IT system fact sheets. Only system managers can manage their IT systems.

These role-specific user groups must exist in the user management of the database from which you create IT Inventory.

In the demo database, the user group IT Inventory contains all users with write access to IT Inventory. Furthermore, all system manager users must be assigned to this user group. The user groups IT architects, System managers, and Process managers contain the users with the corresponding roles.