- Creating user accounts

# Creating user accounts

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Note: Before creating user accounts, see the documentation provided by your storage solution provider for the initial setup procedure to be completed. The first superuser is created as part of that initial setup procedure.

To create user accounts:

1. | At the menu bar, click the Configuration drop-down menu and click Users.

2. | Click + Create user.

3. | At the Create user dialogue window, select the new user's role:

a. | File system user - A file system user has access to the full GUI, except for the Configuration drop-down menu, which is not displayed. A user cannot create or manage a file system, but can monitor all file systems using the Dashboard, and the Alerts and Logs windows. Users log in by clicking Login in the upper-right corner of the screen, and log out by clicking Logout.

b. | Superuser - A superuser has full access to the application, including the Configuration drop-down menu and all sub-menus. A superuser can create, monitor, manage, and remove file system and their components. A superuser create, modify (change passwords), and delete users. A superuser cannot delete their own account, but a superuser can create or delete another superuser.

4. | Fill out the remainder of the Create user dialogue window and click Create.

5. | To set up email notifications of alerts for a user, see Setting up email notifications of alerts.

More about roles

A superuser must be logged in to perform any actions that modify the system, such as starting a file system or adding a server.

After logging in, a user can modify their own account by clicking Account near the upper-right corner of the screen. A user can set these options:

• | Details - Username, email address, and first and last name can be changed.

• | Password - Password can be changed and confirmed.

• | Email Notifications - The types of events for which this account will receive emailed notifications can be selected from a checklist. If no notifications are selected, email notifications will be sent for all alerts except “Host contact alerts”. See Setting up Email Notifications.

Note: Unauthenticated users can access the static HTML content present on the Intel® Manager for Lustre* GUI, but the display will not be populated with current system information unless the user is authenticated. See the documentation provided by your storage solution provider for how to configure Intel® Manager for Lustre* software to require all users to log in to see any data.