The Workspace Approvers function is only applicable when Change Management is enabled.
When a new workspace is added or edited, approvers for that workspace can be selected in the Approvers panel. Note that users with a security role that has the Workspaces Approve privilege can approve any submitted monitor.
View Pending Approvals
Approval or rejection of monitors is part of Change Management, and only applies if Sentinel has been configured to use change management.
To approve or reject monitors that require approval within a workspace, follow these instructions.
In the Workspace panel, right-click on the relevant workspace.
Select View Pending Approvals from the list.
The Pending approvals page opens for the workspace. The page contains a list (if any) of all pending approval monitors in this workspace.
Approve or reject the various monitors, as shown in the following section.
Note: You can also approve or reject monitors awaiting approval from My Tasks.
Approve or Reject a Monitor
The Pending approvals list contains the following information for monitors awaiting approval:
Action
This column contains an Approve button, and a Reject button.
Item
The monitor name.
Version
The minor version number of the monitor; this is the version that requires approval.
User
The username of the person who added or changed the monitor to create this minor version.
Time
The date and time that the version was saved.
Comment
The approval / rejection comment.
Approval Comment: This is the comment that is added when the pending monitor changes are approved. This comment is mandatory if the approval comments setting, ApprovalCommentsRequired, is set to True in the Sentinel configuration file.
Rejection Comment: This is the mandatory comment that is added when the pending monitor changes are rejected.
Approving or Rejecting the Monitor Version
Locate the monitor whose latest version you want to approve or reject.
Tip: To open the monitor page from here, hover the mouse over the monitor name, and click on the View Version icon that appears.
To approve the new version:
Click Approve.
If the approval comment is mandatory (as defined in the Sentinel configuration file), the Approval reason screen appears.
In the Reason edit box, type an approval reason. Then click OK.
The monitor version is approved, the version number changes to a major version number, and the monitor is removed from the list of pending approvals.
To reject the new version:
Click Reject. The Rejection reason screen appears.
In the Reason edit box, type a rejection reason. Then click OK.
The monitor version is rejected, the minor version number is retained, and the monitor is removed from the list of pending approvals.
Continue approving or rejecting the remaining monitors on the list, as described in the previous step.
Approve All
If there is more than one monitor pending approval within a single workspace, you can approve all monitors in a single batch. This is particularly useful for when you have imported several monitors that all require approval. All approvals done in this way have the same approval comment.
To approve all pending approval monitors within a workspace:
Click Approve All, located above the approvals grid, in the pending approvals tab for that workspace.
If the approval comment is mandatory (as defined in the Sentinel configuration file), the Approval reason screen appears.
In the Reason edit box, type an approval reason. Then click OK.
The monitor version for each of the pending monitors in this workspace is approved, and the version number for each of these monitors changes to a major version number. If a reason was supplied, this applies to all of the approved monitors.
Sentinel Workspace Approvals
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The Workspace Approvers function is only applicable when Change Management is enabled.
When a new workspace is added or edited, approvers for that workspace can be selected in the Approvers panel. Note that users with a security role that has the Workspaces Approve privilege can approve any submitted monitor.
View Pending Approvals
Approval or rejection of monitors is part of Change Management, and only applies if Sentinel has been configured to use change management.
To approve or reject monitors that require approval within a workspace, follow these instructions.
The Pending approvals page opens for the workspace. The page contains a list (if any) of all pending approval monitors in this workspace.
Note: You can also approve or reject monitors awaiting approval from My Tasks.
Approve or Reject a Monitor
The Pending approvals list contains the following information for monitors awaiting approval:
Approving or Rejecting the Monitor Version
Locate the monitor whose latest version you want to approve or reject.
Tip: To open the monitor page from here, hover the mouse over the monitor name, and click on the View Version
icon that appears.
To approve the new version:
If the approval comment is mandatory (as defined in the Sentinel configuration file), the Approval reason screen appears.
The monitor version is approved, the version number changes to a major version number, and the monitor is removed from the list of pending approvals.
To reject the new version:
The monitor version is rejected, the minor version number is retained, and the monitor is removed from the list of pending approvals.
Continue approving or rejecting the remaining monitors on the list, as described in the previous step.
Approve All
If there is more than one monitor pending approval within a single workspace, you can approve all monitors in a single batch. This is particularly useful for when you have imported several monitors that all require approval. All approvals done in this way have the same approval comment.
To approve all pending approval monitors within a workspace:
If the approval comment is mandatory (as defined in the Sentinel configuration file), the Approval reason screen appears.
The monitor version for each of the pending monitors in this workspace is approved, and the version number for each of these monitors changes to a major version number. If a reason was supplied, this applies to all of the approved monitors.
The pending approvals tab closes.