FOXMAN-UN’s security management ensures only authorized FOXMAN-UN users can access the system. It includes proper configuration of management rights, privileges and permission of authorized FOXMAN-UN users based on users and roles definition. It ensures that the network administrators can control what each of these users and roles are allowed to.

FOXMAN-UN security elements consists of connection management, domains, users, roles, and profiles.

The FOXMAN-UN connection manager requires username and password to authenticate a FOXMAN-UN user. A domain containing a number of elements (NEs, security profiles, agents, services, etc.) is assigned to a FOXMAN-UN user via a role (predefined system role or user-defined role) which determines the FOXMAN-UN functions the user has a right to execute. For example, a FOXMAN-UN user with a specific role can manage specific nodes without knowing the nodes’ passwords. It’s the user’s role(s) that defines whether or not the user can access the configuration of specific nodes.