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Adding Users to a NerveCenter Installed on a Windows NT Domain Controller

This section describes how to set up the NerveCenter groups and membership in those groups if you install a NerveCenter Server on a Windows NT domain controller. If the NerveCenter Server is on a Windows NT workstation or server instead, see Adding Users to a NerveCenter Installed on a Windows NT Workstation or Server.

Use the following guidelines when adding users to groups:

• Add NerveCenter administrators to the ncadmins group. See The Role of a NerveCenter Administrator.
• Add NerveCenter users to the ncusers group. NerveCenter users will only use the NerveCenter Client to monitor networks. See NerveCenter Login Rights for a more detailed discussion of permissions.

Remember, once you add users to a group, they must log out and log back in for changes to take effect.

If you install the NerveCenter Server on a Windows NT domain controller, Setup creates the global groups NerveCenter Admins and NerveCenter Users automatically.

 
  To set up users:

1. Use Windows NT User Manager for Domains to add your users to one of the two global groups.

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   Note    You must have Domain Admin rights to add users to the global groups.

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2. Then add these global groups as members of the NerveCenter Admins and NerveCenter Users groups on each local machine that is running a NerveCenter Server.

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   Note    You must have Administrator rights on the local machine to add users to the local groups.

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  If some of your users are on another domain:

1. Add each user to the NerveCenter global groups on the domain to which the NerveCenter Server belongs.

   Doing this ensures that those users have the correct advanced user rights.

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   Note    You must have Domain Admin rights to add users to global groups. You must set up a two-way trust relationship between the two domains. See your Windows NT documentation for more information.

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2. Tell your users to specify their domains along with their user IDs whenever they are prompted for User ID by NerveCenter.

The NerveCenter Server authenticates users first by evaluating which group they belong to and then by evaluating the validity of their Windows NT user ID and password.