Reference Guide
Approval Management
Managerial Approval for Connections
5 min
the connection approval feature is used for setting up and managing user authentications in device connections (in rdp proxy, ssh proxy, sftp proxy, and http proxy) admins can configure an approval process so that users will require managerial approval to connect devices connection approvals may be given by managers or members of user groups managerial approval can be configured for either user groups or device groups if managerial approval is configured for a user group, all users in that group will require managerial approval if managerial approval is configured for a device group, all users will require managerial approval to connect to that device group to enable managerial approval for a user group navigate to users > user groups click the action button and click on the edit group next navigate to require connection approval enable the required managerial approval from the group manager save to enable managerial approval for a device group navigate to devices > inventory click the action button of the preferred device group and edit next navigate to the connection approval methods part enable required managerial approval and save if you want to set up an approval process to manage connections of a specific group to a specific device group, you should configure an approval workflow instead of setting up user group or device group parameters refer to the chapter for details if the requester is also the manager of the group and auto approve when requester is approver is set as true , approval will be given automatically and the connection will be established thus, the manager does not need to actively approve when you want to approve or reject connections via email, the manager receives an email including the header as this \<instancename> connection approval notification #\<approvalid> my approvals page shows request details and the approver manager, which helps me know who will be approving the request if the manager does not approve or reject connection requests and approval status change to expire is defined as min, the request status changes from waiting to expired on my approvals page