User Maintenance

Users are entities with login accounts in the Horizon system. Ideally, each user account corresponds to only one person.

This page describes additional tasks and information related to user accounts.

Passwords

Set a new password for any user

  1. Log in as a user with admin permissions.

  2. Click User Management  Manage Users in the side menu.

  3. Or, click Administration  Configure OpenNMS in the side menu, then under OpenNMS System, click Configure Users, Groups and On-Call Roles  Configure Users.

  4. Click the Modify icon next to an existing user and select Reset Password.

  5. Type a new password, confirm it, and click OK.

  6. Click Finish to apply the changes.

Change your password

  1. Log in with user name and current password.

  2. Choose Change Password from the list below your username.

  3. Specify your current password, then set and confirm your new password.

  4. Click Submit.

  5. Log out and log in with your new password.

Delete users and groups

  1. Log in as a user with admin permissions.

  2. Click User Management  Manage Users or User Management  Manage Groups in the side menu, as appropriate.

  3. Or, click Administration  Configure OpenNMS in the side menu, then under OpenNMS System, click Configure Users, Groups and On-Call Roles  Configure Users or Configure Groups, as appropriate.

  4. Click the Delete symbol beside the user or group that you want to delete.

  5. Click OK to confirm deletion.

If you delete a group, no one receives a notification that it has been deleted. If the group is associated with a schedule, that schedule will also be deleted, and users previously included in the group will no longer receive notifications that were set up in the schedule.

Advanced configuration

Horizon persists the user, password, and other detail descriptions in the users.xml file.