Time for action – setting realm permissions

It's time for you to add some permissions to your newly created user. So let's give them access to manage devices, collect methods, graphs, and templates.

  1. Go to Utilities | User Management and select your previously created user.
  2. Select all fields as shown in the following screenshot and click on the Save button.
    Time for action – setting realm permissions

What just happened?

You just added all permissions to your user to manage devices and all that is required to create graphs. Your user will not be able to create new users or change their permissions and will also not be able to change the global settings for Cacti.

Graph permissions

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