Overview of Security
Notes:
This section contains information about role-based security. For information about network security, see Appendix G, “Terminal Services”.
The nested global group membership (through Active Directory) is not supported in Operations Sentinel. The domain user, or the global group that the domain user is a member of, must be a member of the local user group.
Operations Sentinel runs in the Windows client-server paradigm. Operations Sentinel services run on an Operations Sentinel server and continually update management data on the server. Operations Sentinel client applications run on Operations Sentinel workstations. Various security mechanisms ensure that only authorized users can access Operations Sentinel and guarantee that improperly privileged users cannot access management data.
Use the following definitions while reading this overview.
Workstation user
A user who logs onto an Operations Sentinel workstation
Workstation user account
A Windows user account used to log on to an Operations Sentinel workstation