Novell iManager 2.7.5 Administration Guide - NetIQ

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5Roles and Tasks
Selecting the Roles and Tasks view in the Header frame displays all of iManager’s available roles and
tasks in the Navigation frame. iManager groups related roles and tasks into categories. However, you
can create custom category groups and assign roles and tasks to them. For more information, see
“The Category Tab” on page 62.
This section includes the following topics:
• Section 5.1, “Navigating Roles and Tasks,” on page 33
• Section 5.2, “Directory Administration,” on page 37
• Section 5.3, “Groups,” on page 39
• Section 5.4, “Help Desk,” on page 41
• Section 5.5, “Partitions and Replicas,” on page 42
• Section 5.6, “Rights,” on page 44
• Section 5.7, “Schema,” on page 46
• Section 5.8, “Users,” on page 49
The first section in this chapter introduces Roles and Tasks navigation. The remaining sections
provide a detailed description of the tasks available in iManager’s core set of roles and tasks. For
information about the roles and tasks provided by a product‐specific plug‐in, consult that product’s
documentation.
In addition to the Roles and Tasks view, you can configure iManager’s Favorites view to display your
most frequently used tasks. For more information, see “Manage Favorites” on page 83.
5.1 Navigating Roles and Tasks
Navigating iManager’s tasks is a straight‐forward process that includes the following general steps:
1 (Navigation frame) Open the category that contains the desired task.
2 (Navigation frame) Select the desired task from the category’s list of tasks.
3 (Content frame) Provide the necessary information to complete the task. When applicable, this
includes specifying those objects to which the task is applied.
For information about selecting objects to which the task will apply, see “Selecting and Filtering
Objects” on page 33.
4 (Content frame) Click OK to perform the task.
5.1.1 Selecting and Filtering Objects
For those tasks that can be applied to more than one object at a time (for example, Modify User),
iManager provides options, selectable in the Content frame, for locating the desired objects.
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