I want to give some users the ability to use the Excel Connector to pull some very basic computer information, like Computer name, IP Address, MAC Address, Service Tag… Stuff like that. But I don’t want them to be able to see anything else.
So, I thought about it for a bit and thought “AH! Maybe if I create a new site, and have all of the computers check in to that new site. And then limit the web reports user with a filter of the new site…”. And that seems to have basically worked. Now the user can not see any fixlet information or analysis info or whatever. That is good. I am mostly to my goal.
However, this user can still see all of the custom properties that we have created. Some of these custom properties are things we don’t want these users to be able to see. Is there a way to block custom properties from this user? Or is there some other way I can create these properties so that the filtered user can’t see them? The properties say they are in the “Master operator site”, but this filtered user is still seeing them in web reports/excel connector.
Yep… the Excel Connector will have permissions to everything the Web Reports user has permission to… Probably the easiest thing to do is make a Web Reports filter and use that as the user permissions. You will need the user to have permissions to the various Analysis in order to see the properties in the Analyses.
Hi Ben. That was kind of the point I was trying to get to. I made a filter and used that for the user permissions. The problem is the user is seeing custom properties that I don’t think they should be seeing. But I might just be missing something about how custom properties work.
The user can not pull information about fixlets and analyses, which is good. That’s what I was going for. But they are still seeing custom computer properties that we have created, instead of just the built in stuff.
Which properties are they seeing that they shouldn’t? (They shouldn’t see properties that come from Analyses in Fixlet sites to which they don’t have access).
They are seeing computer properties that were just created by going in to “manage properties” and just adding new properties there. So they aren’t from an analysis.
The properties say they are in the “Master Operator Site”, which to me the user shouldn’t see because I have them filtered to a different site.
I see… I believe that all “global properties” will be viewable by all web reports users… To restrict them, you should make an Analysis in a custom Fixlet site and then put the properties in those analyses.