Types Of User Account

FusionReactor supports three different types (or levels) of user account:

 

 

Note: FusionReactor does not have individual users with user names and passwords, but three fixed accounts each of which has it's own password.

Administrators

Administrator is the most powerful type of user account in FusionReactor. They are able to access all of the functions available in FusionReactor including (Note: some points are only available on Enterprise Versions):

 

Who Should use the Administrator Account?

The Administrator should be used by users who need to create and maintain the instances of FusionReactor on computer, setup and manage the instances that are visible on any Enterprise Dashboard and maintain the user accounts. For example, in hosting environments this account might be used by the hosting company to configure FusionReactor for customers on their application server instances.

 

Managers

Managers are "Instance Administrators". They Manage or Administer a single instance of FusionReactor. They are able to (Note: some points are only available on Enterprise Versions) :

 

Who Should use the Manager Account?

The Manager account should be used by users who need to manage or administer an application server. For example, in hosting environments this account might be used by the customer's application administrator.

 

Observers

Observers are only able to view the following information on a specific instance (Note: some points are only available on Enterprise Versions):

 

 

Who Should use the Observer Account?

The Observer account should be used by users who need to examine the performance and metrics from an application server. For example, in hosting environments this account might be used by the customer's application developers to examine how well the application performs in production.

 

Enterprise Dashboard

When a user clicks on a link on the Enterprise Dashboard for a monitored server they are transferred to that server instance of FusionReactor with the same level of User account that they are logged in as. For example, this means that a Manager on an instance that is monitoring another instance of FusionReactor, will be granted Manager level access to the other instance of FusionReactor.