Active System Manager Release 8.2 User’s Guide

About roles

Every ASM user account can be assigned to any one of the following roles:

Administrator — Users with Administrator role has the privilege to view all the pages and to perform all operations in ASM and grant permission to Standard user to perform certain operations.
Standard — Users with Standard role can view certain pages and perform certain operations based on the permission granted by Administrator. Also, Standard users can grant permission to other user to view and perform certain operation that they own.
Read Only — Users with Read Only role can view all ASM operations but not allowed to perform any operation. When a user logs in as a Read Only user, ASM does not allow the user to perform any operations by deactivating the functionality on the UI.

The following table describes the privileges or permissions associated with the roles:

Table 1. About roles
Feature	Permission	Roles
Feature	Permission	Administrator	Standard	Read-only
Dashboard	View	Yes	Owner/ Participant NOTE: Standard users who are granted permission or are owners, can view the dashboard data and links to services, templates, resource utilization, and resource pools. However, the data is filtered by services, resource utilizations and pools, recent templates, and any recent activity performed by the user as an owner or participant.	Yes
	Read	Yes	Owner/ Participant	Yes
	Link to other pages	Yes	Owner/ Participant	Yes NOTE: Direct links to deploy a service from recent templates is disabled.
Services	View	Yes	Owner/ Participant NOTE: Users can view only services that they own or are granted permission to.	Yes
	Deploy a Service	Yes	Owner/ Participant NOTE: Users can only deploy services they own or are granted permission to.	No
	Export to File	Yes	Owner/ Participant NOTE: Users can only export services they own or are granted permission to.	No
Service Details	View	Yes	Owner/ Participant NOTE: On the Service page, users can view service details and perform actions only for services which they are owners or are granted permission to. Users with this role cannot perform any firmware action.	Yes
	Open Device Console	Yes	Owner/ Participant	No
	Edit Service Information	Yes	Owner	No
	Delete	Yes	Owner	No
	Cancel	Yes	Owner	No
	Retry	Yes	Owner	No
	View All Settings	Yes	Owner/ Participant	Yes
	Export to File	Yes	Owner/ Participant	No
	Add component	Yes	Owner	No
	Migrate servers	Yes	Owner	No
	Firmware Actions	Yes	No	No
Templates	View	Yes	Participant NOTE: Users can only view templates for which they have been granted permission to by an administrator.	Yes
	Read template	Yes	Participant	Yes
	Create new template	Yes	No	No
	Edit template	Yes	No	No
	Delete template	Yes	No	No
	View template details	Yes	Participant	Yes
	Clone template	Yes	No	No
Template Edit	View	Yes	No	No
	Edit name/category/description	Yes	No	No
	Publish template	Yes	No	No
	Delete template	Yes	No	No
	View All Settings	Yes	No	No
	Import template	Yes	No	No
Template Details	View	Yes	Participant	Yes
	Deploy Service	Yes	Participant	No
	Edit	Yes	No	No
	View All Settings	Yes	Participant	Yes
	Delete Template	Yes	No	No
Resources	View	Yes	Participant NOTE: Users can view resources that part of a server pool for which they are granted permission. They can also view common and shared resources that are not part of a pool. However, users with this role can only run inventory update on the resources.	yes
	View All Resources tab	Yes	Participant	yes
	Run Discovery	Yes	No	No
	Remove resources	Yes	No	No
	Manage or unmanage resources	Yes	No	No
	Run inventory	Yes	Participant	No
	View details (all tabs)	Yes	Participant	Yes
	Launch resource element manager (in details)	Yes	Participant	No
Server Pools tab	View	Yes	Participant	Yes
	Create	Yes	No	No
	Edit	Yes	No	No
	Delete	Yes	No	No
Firmware tab	View	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Add Repository	Yes	No	No
	Remove	Yes	No	No
	Set as Default	Yes	No	No
	Import latest	Yes	No	No
	View Bundles	Yes	Yes	Yes
Settings	View	Yes	No NOTE: Users cannot view the Settings page.	Yes
Application Logs	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Export All	Yes	No	No
	Purge	Yes	No	No
Backup and Restore	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Backup Now	Yes	No	No
	Restore	Yes	No	No
	Edit Settings and Details	Yes	No	No
	Edit Auto Schedule Backup	Yes	No	No
Credential Management	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Create	Yes	No	No
	Edit	Yes	No	No
	Delete	Yes	No	No
Getting Started	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Define Networks Discover Resources Define Existing Services Configure Resources Publish Templates	Yes	No	No
Networks	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Define	Yes	No	No
	Edit	Yes	No	No
	Delete	Yes	No	No
Users	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Create	Yes	No	No
	Edit	Yes	No	No
	Disable/Enable	Yes	No	No
	Delete	Yes	No	No
	Import	Yes	No	No
Directory Services	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Create	Yes	No	No
	Edit	Yes	No	No
	Delete	Yes	No	No
Virtual Appliance Management	View	Yes	No	Yes
	Generate Troubleshooting Bundle	Yes	No	No
	Edit Time Zone and NTP Settings	Yes	No	No
	Edit Proxy Settings	Yes	No	No
	SSL Certificates	Yes	No	No
	Generate Certificate Request	Yes	No	No
	Upload Certificate	Yes	No	No
	Edit License	Yes	No	No
Virtual Identity Pools	View	Yes	No	No
	Create	Yes	No	No
	Export	Yes	No	No
	Delete	Yes	No	No