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System Management

The System Management is intended for users with the System administrator role only (the permission to manage the system). By default Nanitor creates a user account with the System administrator role. The username (email address) for this account is [email protected]. The password for this account can be found on self-hosted instances by following this guide. For Cloud hosted solutions you will need to create a support ticket to gain access to the System administrator's password.

Only System administrators will have access to the System management. It can be accessed from the cog wheel in the top right.

System administration

System Management Settings

In this section, you can manage the settings that are common to all organizations for the Nanitor instance. This includes viewing and managing benchmarks, users, SAML identity providers, organizations, and agents. You can also create a new organization on this page.

  • System settings: Here you can set and configure the portal URLs and an email server. An email server is needed to send digest emails, scheduled reports and notifications.

Warning

For the Nanitor Cloud hosted solution, this is already preconfigured and these settings should not be changed unless instructed by the Nanitor support team.

  • Benchmarks: This section displays all the benchmarks that are imported into the Nanitor instance and their information, such as name, CIS version, Nanitor revision, created at, and description.
  • Users: This section displays a list of all the users added to the Nanitor instance and allows you to add new users or edit their permissions.
  • SAML Identity Providers: This section allows you to add and download service provider metadata to set up the IDP for SAML.
  • Organizations: This section displays a list of organizations added in the instance. From here you can create a new organization by providing a new slug.
  • Agents: This section lists all the available agents that can be downloaded and installed for the instance.
  • Branding: For data exported to PDF (PDF reports) such as Issues PDF report, this section allows you to add a custom logo and custom footer to be added to reports generated for all organizations. A logo file must have the PNG or JPG format and the size not more than 3 MB.

Common use cases

Frequent use cases related to system management include:

  • Creating organizations
  • Setup of external identity providers
  • Creating system-wide user
  • Creating users for organization
  • Configuring an email server