1.0 Overview
This article describes the steps to invite a user to Fortanix-Data-Security-Manager (DSM).
2.0 Prerequisites
The email id of the user is required.
You need to be an account administrator to invite a user to an account.
NOTE
Fortanix recommends that you create more than one administrator accounts to ensure that you do not face any difficulties when an administrator user leaves the organization.
3.0 Steps
Click the Users tab in the left pane of Fortanix Data Manager (DSM) UI.
Click
next to Users to open the Add new users to the account page.On the Add new users to the account page you will see two options:
INVITE BY EMAIL (Selected by default)
SEARCH LDAP DIRECTORY
3.1 Invite a user through INVITE BY EMAIL option
Enter the email address of the person you want to invite.
Enter the name of the person being invited. (This field is optional)
Select a role for the user: Auditor, Account Member, or Account Administrator.
Click INVITE.
NOTE
Click here to read about roles in detail.
3.2 Invite a user through SEARCH LDAP DIRECTORY option
Select the Source and the Scope for search.
Click SEARCH DIRECTORY
Select the user(s) you want to invite.
From the “Use value as the email address” drop-down menu, select the field which contains the email address (E-mail or User Principal Name).
Click ADD USERS TO THE ACCOUNT.
NOTE
To use this option, you must configure Fortanix DSM for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication. Click here to read about LDAP authentication in detail.
4.0 User Actions
You can perform the following actions on existing users:
Enable/Disable a User: To perform this action hover over the user in the user's list and click
(enable/disable toggle button). Delete a User: To perform this action hover over the user in the user's list and click
.Copy UUID of a User: To perform this action hover over the user in the user's list and click
.