User Profile Management

User Profiles are used to configure a set of permissions and other settings that can be applied to new and existing user accounts. AirDefense provides a few pre-created user profiles with commonly used permissions already defined within these profiles. These pre-created profiles are:

• Super Admin - This user profile is used only for the account that is created as the default account for this AirDefense instance. There is only one account with this user profile in any instance of AirDefense.
• Admin - This user profile is used to provide full administrative control to this instance of AirDefense. You can have multiple users with this user profile.
• Guest - This user profile is used to grant some minimum set of permissions to users to view some of the functional areas within this AirDefense instance.
• Help Desk - This user profile is used to grant certain permissions to users that act as help desk for resolving issues with this instance of AirDefense.
• Operation Center - This user profile provides higher access than Help Desk users and is generally granted to a networks operation center user to manage this AirDefense instance from a remote location.

Important

Please note that the user profiles that are marked as Default in the Profile Type field are created by the AirDefense system and cannot be edited or deleted. You can use these default profiles as a template to create your customized user profiles.

User Profiles are managed from the User Management & Configuration screen. In the User Management & Configuration screen, select the User Profile button. The User Management & Configuration screen displays a list of all the user profiles configured for this AirDefense instance.

For each user profile, the following information is displayed.

Field	Description
Profile Name	The name of this user profile.
Profile Type	The profile type. For a profile created by the AirDefense system, this field displays Default. For all user created profiles, this field displays Custom.
Usages	The number of times this profiles was assigned to user accounts valid for this AirDefense instance.
Profile Since	The time stamp when this user profile was created. This is only shown for profiles that are created by users and are marked as Custom in the Profile Type field.
Action	The actions that can be performed on this user profile. You can use the icon to edit this user profile or use the icon to delete this user profile. These actions are not enabled for profiles that are marked as Default in the Profile Type field.