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# Managing Users on Managed Products

Role-based access control (RBAC) user management enables you to manage product user access with custom roles across specified nodes.

Previous versions of ArcMC included user management across nodes as part of Configuration Management (where user information was defined in a Users configuration). In ArcMC 2.1, user management across nodes is now a separate, greatly improved RBAC (role-based access control) functionality.

## User Management Workflow

User management in ArcSight Management Center follows this workflow:

1. Create users in ArcSight Management Center, or import them from managed nodes.
2. Optionally, group users into user lists for ease of organization and management.
3. Create (or import) permission groups to enable administrative privileges.
4. Create roles by assigning permission groups to grant functional access to products.
5. Optionally, create node lists to ease the organization of sets of nodes.
6. Create associations to associate users (or user lists), nodes (or node lists), and roles.
7. Push associations to nodes to enable access for users included in the association, with privileges appropriate for the role and access only to the desired nodes.
8. Check compliance of users on managed nodes with the managing ArcMC.

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