Zimbra Collaboration Server delegated administration lets you create different delegated administrator roles to manage your ZCS environment. Accounts or distribution lists are set up as administrator accounts. These accounts are granted rights to perform specific administration tasks from the administration console. See the Delegated Administration chapter in the ZCSAdministration Guide for more information about delegated administration.
Delegated administrators are created from the Manage Accounts toolbar. You select New>Administrator and use the Administrator wizard to create an administrator or a group administrator account.
The wizard walks you through the following steps.
Create the account, selecting to create either an Admin Group or an Admin Account.
Admin Groups are distribution lists (DL) that have Admin Group enabled. This flags the DL as a delegated administrator DL. After the admin group administrator is created and configured with rights and admin views, you add administrator user accounts to the admin group.
Admin Account is a user account that has Administrator enabled on the account.
Select the admin console views that the administrator account can have.
Add access rights (ACE) to the account. Rights can be either system defined rights or attribute rights. Rights can be granted as a positive or negative right. Negative rights are rights specifically denied to a grantee. The purpose of a negative right is to partially negate rights granted. For example, delegated admin1 has been granted rights to view all accounts, except for the CEO and CFO accounts. The rights to view these two accounts would be negative rights.
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