User Access Overview
Manage user access to Cisco Unified Communications Manager by configuring the following items:
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Access Control Groups
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Roles
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User Rank
Roles Overview
When you provision end users, you must decide on what roles you want to assign to your users. You can assign roles to an end user, application user, or to an access control group. You can assign multiple roles to a single user.
Each role contains a set of privileges that are attached to a specific resource or application. For example, the Standard CCM End Users role provides users who are assigned that role with access to the Cisco Unified Communications Self Care Portal. You can also assign roles that provide access to resources such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration, Cisco CDR Analysis and Reporting, the Dialed Number Analyzer, and the CTI interface. For most resources with graphical user interfaces, such as a specific configuration window, the privileges that are attached to the role allow the user to view or update data in that window, or in a group of related windows.
Configuring and Assigning Roles
You must decide whether you want to assign standard roles to your users, or create custom roles:
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Standard roles—Standard roles are predefined, default roles that come installed in Cisco Unified Communications Manager. You cannot edit the privileges or modify the role in any way.
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Custom roles—Custom roles are roles that you create. You can create custom roles when there are no standard roles that contain the privileges that you want to assign to your users. For example, if you want to assign a standard role, but want to modify one of the privileges, you can copy the privileges of the standard role into a custom role and then edit the privileges in that custom role.
Privilege Types
Each role contains a set of privileges that are attached to a specific resource. There are two types of privileges that you can assign to a resource:
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Read—Read privilege gives the user the ability to view the settings for that resource, but the user cannot make any configuration updates. For example, the privilege may allow the user to view the settings on a particular configuration window, but the configuration window for that application will not display update buttons or icons.
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Update—Update privileges give the user the ability to modify the settings for that resource. For example, the privileges may allow the user to make updates in a specific configuration window.
End User and Administrator Roles
The Standard CCM End Users role provides end users with access to the Cisco Unified Communications Self Care Portal. For additional privileges, such as CTI access, you must assign additional roles, such as the Standard CTI Enabled role.
The Standard CCM Admin Users role is the base role for all administration tasks and serves as the authentication role. This role provides users with administrative access to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration user interface. Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration defines this role as the role that is necessary to log in to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration.
Access Control Group Overview
You can use access control groups along with roles to quickly assign network access permissions to a group of users with similar access requirements.
An access control group is a list of end users and application users. You can assign end users or application users who share similar access needs to an access control group that contains the roles and permissions that they need. For an end user or application user to be assigned to an access control group, the user must meet the minimum rank requirement for that access control group. For example, an end user with a User Rank of 4 can be assigned only to access control groups with minimum rank requirements between 4 and 10.
The system includes a set of predefined standard access control groups. Each standard access control group has a set of roles assigned by default. When you assign a user to that access control group, those roles are also assigned to that end user.
You cannot edit the roles that are assigned to standard access control groups. However, you can create customized access control groups and assign the roles that you choose to your customized access control groups.
User Rank Overview
The User Rank hierarchy provides a set of controls over which access control groups an administrator can assign to an end user or application user.
When provisioning end users or application users, administrators can assign a user rank for the user. Administrators can also assign a user rank requirement for each access control group. When adding users to access conttrol groups, administrators can assign users only to the groups where the user's User Rank meets the group's rank requirement. For example, an administrator can assign a user whom has a User Rank of 3 to access control groups that have a User Rank requirement between 3 and 10. However, an administrator cannot assign that user to an access control group that has a User Rank requirement of 1 or 2.
Administrators can create their own user rank hierarchy within the User Rank Configuration window and can use that hierarchy when provisioning users and access control groups. Note that if you don't configure a user rank hierarchy, or if you simply don't specify the User Rank setting when provisioning users or access conrol groups, all users and access control groups are assigned the default User Rank of 1 (the highest rank possible).