# Manage Users

> Manage who can access the PerformanceGuard web interface and control their roles and access rights.

Source: https://docs.capaone.com/performanceguard/administration/manage-users/  
Product: PerformanceGuard — a separate CapaSystems product; do not apply this page to any other.

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You can only do this if you're a PerformanceGuard administrator.
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To manage who's able to use the PerformanceGuard web interface, open the PerformanceGuard web interface and select **ADMINISTRATION > Setup > Users and roles**.

This topic only has to do with who is able to access the PerformanceGuard web interface. The majority of users in your organization (those who simply have PerformanceGuard agents installed on their computers) are not covered by this. You don't need to configure such users, because PerformanceGuard will be completely transparent to them.

## **User Roles and Access Rights**

PerformanceGuard offers the following roles that determine what users are able to do in the PerformanceGuard web interface:

1. **Admin**: Has access to all sections of the PerformanceGuard web interface and may change settings. If a user has the *Admin* role, the user automatically also has the *Detail* role.
2. **Detail**: Has read access to information related to individual computers or users. You typically give this role to Service Desk personnel.
3. **User** (that is a user who doesn't have any of the *Admin* or *Detail* roles): Has read access to aggregated information about groups of computers only.

| **Roles' Access Rights**                   | **Admin**   | **Detail**   | **User**   |
|:-------------------------------------------|:------------|:-------------|:-----------|
| **Administration**                         | **●**       |              |            |
| **Information about individual computers** | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Information about groups of computers**  | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |

### **Which Widgets Are the Roles Able to Use?**

Because of the roles' different access rights, users with certain roles are not able to use certain widgets on the PerformanceGuard [How Does PerformanceGuard Work?](/performanceguard/get-started/how-does-performanceguard-work/):

| **Roles and Widgets**       | **Admin**   | **Detail**   | **User**   |
|:----------------------------|:------------|:-------------|:-----------|
| **Location Sunburst**       | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |
| **Application Chart**       | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Application Activity**    | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |
| **Application Status**      | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |
| **Computer Bubble Chart**   | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Location Bubble Chart**   | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |
| **AutoSteps Job Heat Map**  | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **AutoSteps Chart**         | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Computer Event Timeline** | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Computer Info**           | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Computer Chart**          | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Custom**                  | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |
| **Event HotSpot**           | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Latency**                 | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |
| **Network Traffic List**    | **●**       | **●**        |            |
| **Performance Status**      | **●**       | **●**        | **●**      |
| **Process List**            | **●**       | **●**        |            |

This is what users with the various roles will be able to select from the menu in the PerformanceGuard web interface:

| **Admin**                                                       | **Detail**                                                      | **User**                                                        |
|:----------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------|:----------------------------------------------------------------|
| ![](/attachments/performanceguard/abdb677b-03d5-41e6-8175-4c269ef9eaac.png) | ![](/attachments/performanceguard/f32d0302-e4be-4594-82e6-fea737dbd813.png) | ![](/attachments/performanceguard/c5046698-8cc2-44b3-8b8d-c752ec07d258.png) |

## **Users List**

On the **PerformanceGuard Users/Role**s tab, the **Users** list contains all users except the *admin* user (see *Administrator* in the following). You can change a user's password or role.

## **Add User to Users List**

When you add a new user, the user name must be unique, and it can't be blank.

## **Administrator**

A special built-in user called *admin* always has the *Admin* role.  
You can change the *admin* user's password, but you can't delete the *admin* user.  
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