Manage users in a project

This section describes how to create and manage users in a LoadRunner Enterprise project.

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Manage users overview

Throughout the performance testing process, LoadRunner Enterprise projects are accessed by many users. To protect, maintain, and control information in a project, users are assigned to roles with different access privileges.

As a LoadRunner Enterprise site administrator, you control access to a project by defining the users who can log in to the project, and by specifying the types of tasks (roles) each user may perform.

For each LoadRunner Enterprise project, you must select a list of valid users from the Users grid. After you add a user to the project, you can assign the user to one or more user roles (only one role per project). Each role has permissions to perform certain LoadRunner Enterprise tasks.

You can also create users or import users from LDAP, activate and deactivate users, change user passwords, define other site administrators, and delete or remove users when they are no longer working on a project.

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Define a LoadRunner Enterprise site administrator

As a site administrator, you can create and maintain domains and projects, manage users, connections, licenses, define servers, and modify configurations. For details on administration tasks, see Key tasks.

Only a site administrator user can define other LoadRunner Enterprise users as site administrators. For details on the different types of administrator users, see About administrator users.

To secure the information in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, ensure that each user you add as a site administrator has a password defined. For details, see Change a user's password.

To define site administrators:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. On the Users toolbar, click  Add User.

3. Select the Admin User check box, and choose Site Admin.

   For details on user settings, see Create a new user.

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Ways to add users

You can add users to LoadRunner Enterprise in the following ways:

Method for adding users	Instructions
Using LoadRunner Enterprise's native user management system	Create a new user
Import users from an LDAP server	Define LDAP settings for importing user Import users from LDAP

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Create a new user

You add users to the Users grid in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration.

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. On the Users toolbar, click  Add User, and configure the user settings as follows:

   UI Element	Description
   ID	The user ID.
   User Name	Enter your LoadRunner Enterprise login name.
   Full Name	Enter the name of the user (optional).
   Status	Select the user's status: active or inactive. Only active users can log in to LoadRunner Enterprise projects.
   Email	Enter the email address to which notifications and alerts are delivered.
   LDAP Username	Displays the LDAP username when a user is imported from an LDAP directory. For details, see LDAP authentication.
   Admin user	Select this option for an admin user, and choose the admin user type: Site Admin. A site administrator has full permissions to perform actions in LoadRunner Enterprise and to define, modify, and remove other users, except the initial site administrator user, which cannot be deleted, demoted, or have it's roles changed by any user including by him/herself. Tenant Admin. A SaaS administrator with permissions to perform specific actions in a customized LoadRunner Enterprise environment. When this option is cleared (the default setting), a regular, non-administrator user will be created.
   Password/Retype Password	Enter your LoadRunner Enterprise user password. Note: Available for Application authentication only. For details, see Application authentication. The Site Administrator user sets the password policy for all users (the Site Administrator user is defined during first installation). All other administrators and users are defined in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration.
   Description	User description (optional).

3. To assign projects and roles to a user, see Assign projects and roles to a user.

4. Click Save to add the new user to the Users grid.

   The following additional settings are displayed when the user is added to the User list:

   UI Element	Description
   ID	The user ID (read-only).
   Deactivation Date	The date on which the user is scheduled to be deactivated. A deactivated user cannot log in to a LoadRunner Enterprise project. Note: This field is set by the LoadRunner Enterprise administrator and is read-only.
   Last Update Date	The date on which the user last logged in to the LoadRunner Enterprise project.
   Tenant Admin	Enables you to filter the Users grid by Tenant Admin (set to true).
   Site Admin	Enables you to filter the Users grid by Site Admin (set to true).

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Assign projects and roles to a user

You can assign LoadRunner Enterprise projects to a user from the Users page (Users grid or user details) or Projects page.

After you assign projects to a user, you can assign roles to the users. By default, new users are assigned to the project as members of the Viewer user role.

You can assign a user to a default role, or to a customized role. For details on customizing a user role, see Assign roles and permissions. You can change the access privileges for existing users at any time by changing the user role to which they are assigned.

Users can be assigned to multiple projects and with different roles.

From the Users page (Users grid):

To assign projects and roles to one or multiple users from the Users grid:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. Select one or more existing users from the Users grid or create a new user, and click Assign to Roles and Projects.

3. To assign roles:

   In the Assign user to roles and projects dialog box, select the role to assign to the users. For details, see Assign roles and permissions.

4. To assign projects:

   1. You can filter the projects list by selecting a domain from the Domains drop down list. LoadRunner Enterprise displays only the projects for the selected domain.

   2. Select the projects you want to assign to the user, and click Assign, or Assign & Another Role to assign additional roles to the users and select another role to assign.

      For details on defining projects, see Manage projects.

From the Users page (User details):

To assign projects and roles to a user from the user details page:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. Select a user from the Users grid or create a new user, and click the User Name link. The user details page opens.

3. To assign projects:

   1. In the Assign user to roles and projects section, click Assign Projects. You can filter the projects list by selecting a domain from the Domains drop down list. LoadRunner Enterprise displays only the projects for the selected domain.

   2. From the list of projects, select projects to assign to the user, and click OK.

   3. Repeat to assign projects from other domains to the user.

      For details on defining projects, see Manage projects.

4. To assign roles:

   1. In the Assign to roles and projects section, select the users to which you want to assign a particular role, and click Assign Role.

   2. Repeat as required to assign additional roles to the selected user.

   For details on creating roles, see Assign roles and permissions.

From the Projects page:

For details on assigning projects to a user from the Projects page, see Manage users assigned to a project.

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Import users from LDAP

You can import users from an LDAP directory to the Users grid in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration.

1. Prerequisites

   Verify that the LDAP import settings are defined. For details, see Define LDAP settings for importing user.

2. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users. On the Users toolbar, click Import Users.

3. In the Import Users (LDAP) dialog box, select the LDAP server you want to browse.

   The LDAP directory base is filtered according to the filter set in the LDAP Settings dialog box. For details, see Define LDAP settings for importing user.

4. You can use the following options to import users:

   • To import a user, mark the user name by selecting the check box.

   • To import a group of users, use Ctrl or Shift to highlight users to be included.

   • To import all users, click the check box in the column header adjacent to Username to select the check boxes for all users. Click the check box again to clear the check boxes of highlighted users.

5. Click OK.

   • If the users were imported successfully, the Import Users (LDAP) dialog box closes and the users are added to the Users grid.

   • If the same user names exist in the Users grid, the Conflict in import users from LDAP dialog box opens. For details, see Handle user name conflicts.

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Edit user details

An administrator can click the user name link of a user in the Users grid to modify an existing user's details, including his or her own.

For details on assigning projects and roles, see Assign projects and roles to a user.

For details on changing passwords, see Change a user's password.

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Export user details to an Excel file

To export information from the Users grid to an Excel file, click . Data from the grid is saved to an Excel file and downloaded to the Downloads folder of the client user.

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Deactivate and activate users

You can deactivate or activate a LoadRunner Enterprise user. A deactivated user cannot log in to any project. The user is not deleted from the Users grid, and all user permissions and settings are saved. This can be useful, for example, for contract workers that work intermittently for a set period of time.

To deactivate users:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. Select one or more active users from the Users grid, and click the Deactivate button on the toolbar.

   The Status is set to Inactive. In addition, the Deactivation Date is updated. If a user is currently logged in to a LoadRunner Enterprise project, this does not terminate the user session. When the user next attempts to log in to a project, a message box displays stating that the user is deactivated and cannot log in.

To activate a user:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. Select an inactive user from the Users grid by clicking the User Name link.

3. In the user details page, click the Status drop down arrow and select Active.

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Change a user's password

The LoadRunner Enterprise administrator can create, change, or override another user's password. This section describes how to change your own password or that of any user.

To create or change a password:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. In the Users grid, click a row to select a user. You can change the password of only one user at a time.

3. Next to Change Password, click Change.

4. Enter a new password and confirm it.

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Delete users

You can delete a user from the Users grid.

To delete a user:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. Select a user from the Users grid.

3. Click the Delete User button.

4. Click Delete to confirm. The user is removed from the Users grid.

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Remove users from a project

To ensure the security of a project, remove any users that are no longer working on the project. Removing a user from a project does not delete the user from the Users grid.

From the Users page:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Users.

2. In the Users grid, select a user that you want to remove by clicking the User Name link.

3. In the user details page, select the projects from which you want to remove the user, and click Unassign.

4. Click Save. The selected projects are unassigned from the user.

From the Projects page:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Management > Projects.

2. Select the project from which you want to remove users, and click the Users tab.

3. In the Users grid, select the users you want to remove and click Unassign. The selected users are removed from the list.

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See also:

• Assign roles and permissions
• Create projects and domains
• Manage projects