Managing Your Profile Settings

Role Availability Read-Only Analyst Manager

You can manage your own user account, which enables you to do the following:

  • Change your full name and password
  • Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) for the account

  • Configure an interval for auto-refreshing the alarms pages

To manage your profile settings

  1. At the bottom of the expanded pane of the USM Central web user interface (UI), hover over the profile settings options, and select Profile.

    Profile Settings page

  2. Modify the data of the items that can be modified.

    3. USM Anywhere helps you meet the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standard by enforcing password complexity, password expiration, and forbidding password reuse. See the USM Anywhere Password Policy for details.

    To set a new password

    1. Open the Profile Settings page.
    2. You have two options to choose from based on your role:
      • General user: At the bottom of the expanded pane of the USM Central web user interface (UI), hover over the profile settings options, and select Profile.
      • Manager: Go to Settings > Users and click the icon of your user.

      Both actions open the profile page.

    3. Click Update Password to display the password fields.

      Update a new password

      Note: The date of the last update displays in front of the Update Password button.

    4. Enter your current password and the new password.
    5. Click Save.

    If you want to protect your account, enable MFA for your user account. When this feature is activated, USM Central displays the multifactor authentication page for you to complete your MFA configuration. The displayed page provides a unique QR code that is used by the Authenticator app to retrieve a verification code. See Using Multifactor Authentication for more information about this security configuration.

    Note: AT&T Cybersecurity recommends that users enable MFA for their account. MFA adds extra security because it requires multiple factors to authenticate Process used to verify the identity of a user, user device, or other entity, usually through a username and password. a user, making it more difficult for an unauthorized person to gain access to the account.

    To enable MFA

    1. Open the Profile Settings page.
    2. You have two options to choose from based on whether your role is as the general user or as the manager:
      • General user: At the bottom of the expanded pane of the USM Central web user interface (UI), hover over the profile settings options, and select Profile.
      • Manager: Go to Settings > Users and click the icon of your user.

      Both actions open the Profile Settings page.

    3. Select Enable Multi-Factor Authentication.
    4. Download the Google Authenticator app on your mobile device and scan the QR code.
    5. Enter the verification code.
    6. Click Save.

    If you want to configure the time that the alarms page refreshes its information, you can set an interval. These are the options:

    • Is Disabled: The page works as usual and displays the icon for manually updating the page.
    • Every 15 min: The page is reloaded every 15 minutes.
    • Every 30 min: The page is reloaded every 30 minutes.
    • Every hour: The page is reloaded every hour.
    • Every 2 hours: The page is reloaded every 2 hours.

To log out of the system

  1. At the bottom of the expanded pane of the USM Central web user interface (UI), hover over the profile settings options.
  2. Select Logout.