Making a Connection Profile Read-Only

You may need to delegate Network Discovery tasks to users in non-administrator roles. However, you may not want these users to change connection profiles. You would make a connection profile read-only to prevent hacking and maintain the security and privacy of confidential information. Another reason to make a connection profile read-only is to prevent less-experienced users from modifying a connection profile to use unsupported protocols.
If you want to limit users to viewing credentials and running Network Discovery tasks, you can block Write rights to each connection profile. By blocking Write rights from a non-administrator role, you make a connection profile Read-only to users in that role. The users who are assigned to those non-administrator roles whose Write rights you block can still view and run tasks, but they cannot change that connection profile or create a connection profile.
This task is a step in the process for delegating Network Discovery tasks to non-administrators.
  1. To make a connection profile read-only
  2. Log on to the Symantec Management Console as Administrator.
  3. In the Symantec Management Console, on the
    Settings
    menu, click
    All Settings
    .
  4. In the left pane, under
    Settings
    , expand
    Monitoring and Alerting > Protocol Management > Connection Profiles
    and click
    Manage Connection Profiles
    .
  5. In the
    Manage Connection Profiles
    pane, click
    Default Connection Profile
    , and then click
    Edit
    .
  6. In the
    Define Group Settings
    dialog box, click
    Access permissions to protocol settings
    .
  7. In the
    Security Descriptor Settings for: Default Connection Profile
    dialog box, select the role, such as
    Symantec Level 2 Workers
    , and click
    Edit
    .
  8. In the
    Permission Selection
    dialog box, uncheck
    Write
    , and click
    Select
    .
  9. In the
    Security Descriptor Settings for: Default Connection Profile
    dialog box, click
    Apply
    to save the settings, and in the
    Define Group Settings
    dialog box, click
    OK
    to save the connection profile.