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Re: Location of NetView icon.

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Subject: Re: Location of NetView icon.
From: Martin Walder <martin.walder@itmasters.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:56:29 -0700
Leslie

If someone has a role but no icon on the desktop, then surely they can drop to
a CLI and issue w-commands which may be undesirable?

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lclark@us.ibm.com wrote:

> Understood. But if there is nothing on the desktop other than the Netview
> Server,
> I figure it does not matter what privileges he has as he cannot use them on
> anything
> you don't put on the desktop. ( In V5, the required role was Senior, not
> Admin.)
> Yes, this may mean that a person with more than one job may need more than
> one
> desktop. Not ideal.  Hint:  You will probably see a  move away from the
> Tivoli context
> menu for Netview administration in the future anyway. You should probably
> focus on
>  the serversetup application as your main means of administering Netview.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
>
> Dave_Finn@computacenter.com@tkg.com on 07/05/2000 09:21:07 AM
>
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>
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>
> To:   IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
> cc:
> Subject:  Re: [NV-L] Location of NetView icon.
>
> Hi Leslie,
>
> Yes you are correct about the setup and yes I have installed the Patch on
> the NT
> TMR server and the UNIX managed node.
>
> The problem of security is more of the other way round, for the NetView
> administrator to access NetView he needs to have at least "admin" global
> rights
> to the TMR.  Which gives them too much access to the other functions within
> the
> TMR.
>
> With the Noticeboard you can at least restrict them to which notices they
> receive and you can have multiple Remote Control objects, within different
> Policy Regions, each with the ability to control selective machines.
>
> Thanks for you reply
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
> lclark@us.ibm.com on 05/07/2000 13:34:28
>
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>
> To:   NV-L@tkg.com
> cc:    (bcc: Dave Finn/COSS/CCenter)
> Subject:  Re: [NV-L] Location of NetView icon.
>
> If I understand your environment, you have an NT TMR Server with Netview on
> a Unix Managed Node.  I have not seen this particular arrangement. The
> Netview
> Framework patch is on both the TMR server and the managed node, right?
>
> In V6, I  think of the NetView Server object as more like the Noticeboard,
> or the
> RemoteControll object. You should be able to copy it from one desktop to
> another.
> Rather than controlling it by policy region, control it by which Admin
> Desktop it is
> on.  The Netview administrator gets his own desktop with the Netview icon
> on it.
>
> Cordially,
>
> Leslie A. Clark
> IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
> Detroit
>
> Dave_Finn@computacenter.com@tkg.com on 07/04/2000 08:47:37 AM
>
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
>
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>
> To:   nv-l@tkg.com
> cc:
> Subject:  [NV-L] Location of NetView icon.
>
> Hi,
>
> I am installed NetView 6.0 for UNIX on Framework version 3.6.2 running on
> NT
>
> I installed the Tivoli NetView Framework Patch, then installed the NetView
> Server.  The icon for the NetView Server appeared in the Desktop for the
> Root
> Administrator.  And for a Tivoli Administrator to access the NetView Client
> they
> need to have global "admin" rights to the TMR server.
>
> What I would like to do is move the NetView Server icon into a separate
> Policy
> Region, so I can give the NetView administrator, "user" global rights and
> the
> "admin" rights to the new Policy Region.
>
> Firstly, is this possible.
>
> And secondly, how do I move the NetView Server icon into a new Policy
> Region.  I
> know the NetView Framework Patch 5.1 used to add two new Managed Resources,
> but
> the version 6 of this patch hasn't, is this right or has something gone
> wrong
> with the installation.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
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