IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Version 8.1

Users

Use this pane to view details of all users that are set up in the selected ObjectServer, and to set up and maintain users.

Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus provides a set of default user accounts. The default users are described in the following table.

Table 1. Default users
User name	Description
root	This user is created with an empty string as a password by default. You can reset the password by using Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator , or the ALTER USER ObjectServer SQL command.
nobody	This user is disabled and cannot be used to access the ObjectServer. Ownership of each alert in the alerts.status table is assigned to a user when the row is inserted. By default, probes assign rows to the `nobody` user.

In the Users pane, the following details are shown for each user:

The unique name assigned to the user for authentication purposes
A status indicator icon is shown to the left of the user name. The color of the icon depicts the connection status of the user as follows:
- A green color indicates that the user is connected.
- A blue color indicates that the user is enabled, but not connected.
- A gray color indicates that the user is not enabled.
The full name of the user
The type of user
An indication of whether Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) are used as the authentication mode to verify user credentials
The user identifier
An indication of whether the user has been enabled to use Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus

From the Users pane, you can view the connection details for any selected user who is currently logged in to the ObjectServer. For example, if you want to see how many users are currently connected as root, and their connection details, you can select the row for the root user. Right-click over the selected row, and then click See connections from the pop-up menu. The ObjectServer Connections pane opens. A dynamic quick filter is automatically applied to the Login Name column so that only applications to which the selected user is connected are shown. The Quick Filter icon This figure shows the filter icon. is shown in the Login Name column header to indicate that a filter has been applied to that name. You can remove this filter to show all connections for all users by clicking Connections under the System menu button.

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