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Defining member systems

A managed system must belong to at least one managed system policy in order for users to be able to access or manage accounts for the system.

You define policy membership for managed systems in several ways:

  • Attaching a target system from the Target system information page

  • Attaching discovered systems to policies

  • Modifying membership via the Managed system policies menu

  • Modifying membership via the Managed systems menu

  • Using import rules to assign discovered managed systems.

See Import rules for more information about defining import rules.

Attaching a target system to a managed system policy

Once you have added a target system with the Automatically create a Privileged Access Manager managed system setting enabled, you can attach the system to a policy by clicking Policies at the bottom of the Target system information page.

Attaching discovered systems to a managed system policy

Discovered systems include servers and workstations found on an Active Directory target system during auto discovery, as well as systems with Local Workstation Service installed that have registered with the Bravura Privilege server.

To attach discovered systems to policies:

  1. Navigate to Manage the system > Resources > Discovered objects > Systems

  2. Select the discovered system to manage.

  3. Click Manage.

  4. Select the managed system policy the discovered system will be bound to.

  5. Click Select .

  6. Choose the appropriate template and connection credentials.

  7. Click Apply .

See Discovered Objects for more information about managing discovered objects.

Modifying memberships via the managed system policies menu

After managed systems have been added, you can manually add or remove managed systems’ membership to managed system policies.

You cannot remove managed system policy membership for a managed system if there are any passwords or group sets checked out from that system.

To modify managed system policy membership by adding or removing managed systems:

  1. Navigate to the Managed system policy information page .

  2. Select the Member systems tab.

  3. Click Add new… to see the Managed systems page.

  4. Check the boxes next to the managed systems you want to add to the policy.

    Only managed systems matching the managed system policy’s mode are listed.

  5. Click Select .

Modifying memberships via the managed systems menu

You can modify managed system policy membership for a managed system using the Managed systems menu.

A managed system must belong to at least one managed system policy in order for users to be able to access managed accounts or groups on the system.

To apply one or more managed systems to a managed system policy :

  1. Click Manage the system > Privileged access > Managed systems.

  2. Select the managed system you want to manage.

  3. Click Policies .

  4. Click Select… to view the list of available managed system policies.

  5. Check the boxes next to the policies you want to assign to the managed system.

    Only managed system policies matching the managed system’s mode are listed.

  6. Click Select .

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