Group Management

You can only edit the entries if you belong to the zeusafm Administrator user group or to another user group with appropriate user rights.

Purpose

In Group Management you can set up custom user groups and you can define which read and write permissions each of these groups has.

In User Management you can later assign one or more of these user groups to individual users.

Opening

To open Group Management, select the menu item Administration > Group Management.

The list shows all user groups that have been defined. By default, there already is one user group zeusafm Admin as well as an Application Admin user group for each application.

Adding / deleting a user group

When adding a new application to your configuration, vWAF automatically creates a corresponding Application Admin user group. You can only add and delete custom user groups. You can’t manually add and delete the internal user groups zeusafm Administrator, PCI Auditor, and Application Administrator.

To add a new user-defined user group, enter a group name into the Create Group field and then click the Create button.

To delete a user-defined user group, click the corresponding Delete icon in the Actions column.

Editing a user group

You can only edit user-defined user groups. The internal groups zeusafm Admin and Application Admin can’t be changed.

To edit the permissions of a user-defined user group:

  1. In the Actions column, click the Edit icon.
  2. The Permissions tree view opens.

    The treeview is divided into two major branches:

    • administration: Comprises overall management tasks, such as changing fundamental system settings, adding new applications, group and user management, etc.
    • application: Comprises all application-specific issues that are typical for application administrators, such as configuration of individual handlers, monitoring and alerting. there’s one full subtree for each application.

    The text within brackets (“read”, “write” or “read/write”) indicates the highest permission within the subtree.

  3. To modify the settings, you can either click remove all rights, set all to read, or set all to read/write to change the settings for the whole subtree, or you can set each option manually.
  4. When finished, click the Save button. The changed settings become effective immediately.