Security Summary

This section summarizes NMC-RX security relative to groups, devices, and the NMC-RX application itself.

Groups

Group security depends on the navigational path to the particular group from the top-level group. When you navigate through a hierarchy of groups:

• If the child group security setting is None, the child group is also accessible to the user because the user has access to the parent.
• If the child group security setting is Permit, the child group is displayed if the user is in the filter list for the child group because this is a list of users who are permitted access.
• If the child group security setting is Deny, the child group is displayed if the user is not in the filter list for the child group because this is a list of users who are denied access.

Devices

To view a list of devices, click the All Elements tab in the Network Workshop. The elements that this particular user is allowed to see appear in the list.

NMC-RX Application

The NMC-RX application does not support direct security for a device. The NMC-RX application secures a device through the security of the group to which the device belongs.

All users with security privileges can configure a group to which they have access. If another user with security privileges has access to a group that you created, that user can configure the group, change its name, its members, and its security settings.