1. Log on to the computer with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Administrators role for the Operations Manager 2007 management group.

2. In the Operations console, click the Administration button.

3. In the Administration pane, expand Administration, expand Security, right-click User Roles, point to New User Role, and then click Author.

4. In the Create User Role Wizard, on the General page, type a name for the user role in the User role name text box, and then click Add.

5. On the Select User or Groups dialog box, enter the users or groups that you want to assign to the Author user role, and then click OK.

   Important
   Adding a machine account to user role member would allow all services on that computer to have SDK access. It is recommended that you do not add a machine account to any user role.

6. On the General page, type an optional description in the Description text box for the Author user role, and then click Next.

7. On the Author Scope page, under Approved targets, configure the list of approved targets of which members of the Author user role can edit monitors, rules, tasks, or views. If you want to configure a subset of available approved targets for the Author user role, click Only targets explicitly added to the 'Approved targets' grid are approved, and then click Next.

   Note
   If you selected All targets are automatically approved, including targets in Management Packs imported in the future, then no options will be available on the Tasks page as described in step 9 or the Views page in step 10.

8. On the Group Scope page, expand the Groups list, click one or more object groups, and then click Next.

   Note
   You will need to clear the check box at the root level of the list before you can select any other groups.

9. On the Tasks page, under Approve tasks, configure the approved tasks that members of the Author user role can run. If you want to configure a subset of available approved tasks for the Author user role, click Only tasks explicitly added to the 'Approved tasks' grid are approved, click Add, click the desired tasks, and then click Next.

   Note
   If in step 7 you selected All targets are automatically approved, including targets in Management Packs imported in the future, then no options will be available on the Tasks page.

10. On the Views page, under Approve views, configure the views that members of the Author user role can see. If you want to configure a subset of available monitoring views and tasks for the Author user role, select Only the views selected below are approved, click the desired approved views, and then click Next.

    Note
    If in step 7 you selected All targets are automatically approved, including targets in Management Packs imported in the future, then no options will be available on the Views page.

    Note
    If you do not select All views are automatically approved, including views in management packs imported in the future, users assigned this role will not be able to open alert views from within Health Explorer.

11. On the Summary page, check the settings you have made and then click Create.

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