User Management

User management, domains, business areas

User management in AAI is based on users, domains, and business areas:

  • Users

    Users have access to AAI functions and areas according to the domain that they are assigned to and to their user roles in that domain. The JAWS and LDAP domains provide two user roles only: Admin (full access to all AAI areas and functions) and User (read-only access to all AAI areas and full access to reports and the monitoring dashboards). The EEM domain supports much more granular security access.

  • Domains

    Domains control the user login, the authentication method, and the type of user access privileges that are available. As an AAI administrator, you configure the domains that support your company's security and data-access policies. Then, the users are already assigned to the respective domains or you assign them manually.

  • Business areas

    Business areas are organizational categories that reflect the structure of your business. Jobstreams are assigned to business areas. Business areas are assigned to users. This means that, although business areas are not strictly a means of controlling access to functions, they do play a role on what users can see when they first log in. When you assign a business area to a user, their dashboards will display jobstreams for that business area only. Users can modify their business area settings at any time. Business areas also facilitate many other essential functions related to jobstreams, such as filtering, managing alerts, defining processing cycles and many more.

As an AAI administrator, you manage users and domains on the Settings > User Management page. Depending on your company's organization, usually either jobstream administrators or business area coordinators manage business areas.

Note:

With AAI v24.4 two new access policies, BusinessArea and JobstreamV2, were introduced to replace and enhance the access control that the Jobstream access policy provided until that point. If you have upgraded from a previous AAI version to v24.4, see Transitioning to Business Area Access Control for an overview of the changes and their impact on your access policy management.

The following topics describe the AAI user management functions and how to work with them: