Cisco Acs 57 User Guide

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Managing System Operations and Configuration in the Monitoring and Report Viewer
Configuring System Alarm Settings
2.Check the check box of the collection filter or filters that you want to delete, then click Delete.
The following message appears:
Are you sure you want to delete the selected item(s)?
3.Click Ye s.
The Collection Filters page appears without the deleted collection filter.
Configuring System Alarm Settings
See Configuring System Alarm Settings, page 36 for a description of how to...

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Managing System Operations and Configuration in the Monitoring and Report Viewer
 
Configuring Remote Database Settings
2.Click Submit to configure the remote database.
Note: Special characters are not supported in remote database names. 
Note: You can view the status of your export job in the Scheduler. See Viewing Scheduled Jobs, page 11 for more 
information.
Note: If there are two log collector servers that have been configured to export data to a remote database, only one log 
collector server...

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Managing System Operations and Configuration in the Monitoring and Report Viewer
Configuring Remote Database Settings
9.From the Monitoring and Report Viewer, choose Monitoring Configuration > System Configuration > Remote 
Database Settings to change the oracle database port number.
10.Enter the new oracle database port number.
ACS displays the following message:
This will require view database restart. Are you sure you want to do this?
11.Click OK.
For more information, see Configuring Remote...

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Managing System Operations and Configuration in the Monitoring and Report Viewer
 
Configuring Remote Database Settings 

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Managing System Administrators
System administrators are responsible for deploying, configuring, maintaining, and monitoring the ACS servers in your 
network. They can perform various operations in ACS through the ACS administrative interface. When you define an 
administrator in ACS, you assign a password and a role or set of roles that determine the access privilege, the 
administrator has for various operations.
When you create an administrator account, you...

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Managing System Administrators
 
Understanding Administrator Roles and Accounts
The predefined administrator has super administrator permissions—Create, Read, Update, Delete, and eXecute 
(CRUDX)—to all ACS resources. When you register a secondary instance to a primary instance, you can use any account 
created on the primary instance. The credentials that you create on the primary instance apply to the secondary instance.
Note: After installation, the first time you log in to ACS, you must do so...

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Managing System Administrators
Configuring System Administrators and Accounts
ACS 5.7 authenticates every login operation by using user credentials (username and password). Then, by using the 
administrator and role definitions, ACS fetches the appropriate permissions and answers subsequent authorization 
requests.
The ACS user interface displays the functions and options for which you have the necessary administrator privileges only.
Note: Allow a few seconds before logging back in so that changes...

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Managing System Administrators
 
Understanding Roles
If the administrator account is configured in an external or internal identity store and has a dynamic role assignment, ACS 
evaluates the authorization policy and gets a list of administrator roles and use it dynamically or Deny Access as the 
result. If the Super Admin assigns a dynamic role for an administrator and does not configure the authorization policy, 
then authorization of that administrator account uses the default value “deny access”....

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Managing System Administrators
Understanding Roles
OperationsAdmin This role is a combination of a few of the existing administrator accounts along with some extra 
resources and privileges. 
To view the resources and privileges of OperationsAdmin:
1.Choose System Administration > Administrators > Roles from ACS web interface.
2.Click the radio button near OperationsAdmin.
3.Click View. 
ACS displays the resources and privileges associated with OperationsAdmin. 
OperationsAdmin can be authenticated...

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Managing System Administrators
 
Understanding Roles
Note: At first login, only the Super Admin is assigned to a specific administrator.
Related Topics
Administrator Accounts and Role Association, page 7
Creating, Duplicating, Editing, and Deleting Administrator Accounts, page 7
Changing Role Associations
By design, all roles in ACS are predefined and cannot be changed. ACS allows you to only change role associations. 
Owing to the potential ramifications on the system’s entire authorization status,...