Configuring Screen Access

The Screen Permissions page contains a hierarchical list of all screens that appear within Dell SonicWALL GMS. From this screen, you can control access to individual screens or all screens within a section. This includes permissions for users or groups to view, or view and update reports.

NOTE: By default, a new user group has no privileges.

To configure screen access settings for a user or user group, complete the following steps:

1	Navigate to Console > Management and open the Users configuration screen.

2	Select a user or user group under All Users.

3	Click the Screen Permissions tab.

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Under All Screens, select a panel, section, or screen. For example, for REPORTS_PANEL, you can select the whole panel, the unit type section such as Firewall, SRA, CDP, or Email Security, the group of reports for that type of unit, or the individual report or screen that you want to set permissions for. On the right side of the pane, select from the following:

•	To prevent any access to the object, select None.

•	To allow view only access, select View Only.

•	To allow the user or group to make updates only for unit-level screens and not for group-level screens, select View & Update At Unit Level Only. This option is only available for objects in the Policies Panel and Reports Panel.

•	To allow unrestricted access to the object, select View and Update. For this example, we select the View Only option to allow our executive team to view the firewall bandwidth panel.

 

5	Click Update to apply the permission changes.

6	You might see a warning screen if you are applying permission changes to a group, verify that you wish to apply these changes to the group and all users within that group and click OK. The panel object is now preceded by a .

 

NOTE: The more specific settings override the more general settings. For example, if you select View Only for the Status group of reports and select None for the Up-Time over Time report, then the selected user only sees the Up-Time Summary report in the Status reports and have View Only permission for that report.

7	To clear all screen settings and start over, click Reset.

8	When finished, click Update.