Removing the Edit filter criteria permission for some users or removing the Edit Filter permission for them

Products

• Client Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

How to remove the edit permission on filters for some users, completely or partially.  For example, not allowing them to change the 'Filter mode' to 'Query Mode'.

Environment

ITMS 8.x

 

Resolution

If you want to remove the permission partially, you can remove their access to Manage>Filters.

In this case, users have access to Manage>Computers >Filters section in the left pane and can use the filters and edit them by adding and removing criteria, but they cannot change the query or filter definition; to do so:

1. Go to Settings>All settings>Notification Server>Account Management>Account and choose the account you want to change 
   • Preferably right-click on the account and clone it, then make the changes on the cloned account, and add your user to the new cloned one instead of changing the built-in accounts.
2. Click on 'Show Security Role Manager' below in the right pane 
3. Make sure the Role on top is the correct one, then change the View to Console Menu
4. Under Manage>Filters, remove the 'Read' permission

To remove the edit/write permission completely:

• Go to Settings>All settings>Notification Server>Account Management>Account or role and choose the User or Role,  right pane Privileges' tab under management console and you will see 'Create Filter'. Uncheck this.

Also:

• Go to Settings>All settings>Notification Server>Account Management>Account or Role, and then select Roles>Privileges>Show Security Role Manager (Below the page).
• Choose the desired Role on top of the page
• Click on the glasses icon
• Change the view to 'Filters', or 'All Items>Resource Management> Filters (This will show more details)'. 
• Here you can remove the 'Write' permission