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• No delegated access control

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The time it takes to set thresholds in this manner varies but, according to the vendor, six weeks is the norm. It took three weeks before the ProActivenet on our network had enough history to make sense of our thresholds. If the idea of fluctuating thresholds makes you nervous, you can set a static threshold as well.

ProactiveNet supports administrative access, as well as a couple of levels of user access. User access is assigned by the administrator and can be restricted to specific groups and/or views of devices, with or without read-only access. This doesn't allow for delegated access control, where access to a subset or group of devices can be further partitioned and authorized for access by an admin of that subgroup. It does, however, offer enough access within a single organization to cover most enterprise needs, because access levels are configurable.