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Administrator Guide
Information and resources about the Administration section of the Central Management Console (CMC), and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
Administration
Settings
Credentials manager
The Credentials manager is a tool that lets you centralize the management of monitored endpoints to make it easier to create, delete, or update the credentials that are needed to access those endpoints.
Add an identity
You can use Credentials manager to add identities.

CMC
- Introduction
  An overview of the Central Management Console (CMC).
- Installation Guide
  Information and resources on how to install the Central Management Console (CMC), and the different options and settings available.
- Administrator Guide
  Information and resources about the Administration section of the Central Management Console (CMC), and the tasks that you can do in this part of the software.
  - Administration
    - Administration page
      The administration page lets a user with administrator privileges configure settings and do other tasks.
    - Settings
      - Security control panel
        The Security control panel page shows an overview of the current status of the learning process and lets you configure the features that manage the: learning, security profile, zones, alerts tuning, and alert closing options.
      - Features control panel
        The Features control panel page shows an overview of the current status of system features configuration and lets you fine tune specific values.
      - Users management
        The Users management page shows all the pages that you need to let you manage authentication and authorization policies for users and groups.
      - CLI
        The CLI page lets you change configuration parameters and perform troubleshooting activities.
      - Dashboards
        The Dashboards page lets you create and configure widget-based dashboards that provide information about your network. The dashboards created here will show on the Guardian home page, and give an overview of the monitored environment.
      - Threat Intelligence
        The Threat Intelligence page lets you manage packet rules, YARA rules, Sigma rules, structured threat information expression (STIX) indicators and vulnerabilities to provide detailed threat information.
      - Data model
        The Data model page lets you create a custom field to the Nodes (All-In-One CMC only) and Assets tables. A custom field lets you add information that might be relevant to your organization, and cannot be extracted from network traffic.
      - Data integration
      - Credentials manager
        The Credentials manager is a tool that lets you centralize the management of monitored endpoints to make it easier to create, delete, or update the credentials that are needed to access those endpoints.
        Add an identity
        You can use Credentials manager to add identities.
        Import credentials from a CSV file
        The Credentials manager lets you import credentials from a comma-separated value (CSV) file.
      - Zone configurations
        The Zone configurations page shows all the zone configurations in your environment and lets you add new zone configurations and edit them.
      - Synchronization settings
        The Synchronization settings page lets you customize the parameters related to upstream or downstream machines.
      - Alert playbooks
    - System
- User Guide
  Information and resources about the main features of the Central Management Console (CMC), and the tasks that you can do from the user interface (UI).
- Maintenance Guide
  Information about the maintenance tasks of Central Management Console (CMC), to help you administer and maintain the solution in a production environment.
- Print format documentation
  A list of all the print-format documentation that is available for the Central Management Console (CMC).

Add an identity

You can use Credentials manager to add identities.

Each identity has a unique name to distinguish it from other identities. To insert a node into the applicability list of an identity, you can:

Enter an internet protocol (IP) address, or a subnet mask, into the applicable field, or
Select a set of nodes from a list

Note: A node cannot belong to multiple identities for the same scope.

In the top navigation bar, select
The administration page opens.
In the Settings section, select Credentials manager.
The Credentials manager page opens.
In the top right section, select Add identity.
A dropdown shows.
From the dropdown, select the applicable option.
A dialog shows.
Enter the details as necessary.
Optional: Select Select nodes from list, or use Add node ID / subnet.
A dialog shows.
Optional: Select the nodes desired for the scope of applicability.
Select Apply to selected nodes.
The nodes are associated to the credentials in the new identity.
Select Save.

The identity has been added.