Add a New Role

Create a custom role for your site.

Review the default roles and privileges before adding a new role.

Two roles are available by default: Manager and Operator. Add additional roles per your site's needs.

When a role is given Monitor Viewer or Monitor Admin privileges, you have the option to assign clusters to the role. Any users assigned that role will automatically be given Monitoring access to those clusters.

  1. Click the Configure tab.
  2. Click Roles from the Access Management menu located on the left-hand side of the web page.
  3. Click Add Role.
    A role is created with a default role name and undefined privileges.
  4. Click located to the right of the name of the role.
    1. For Role Name, enter a name that describes the role.
    2. Click OK.
  5. Choose the privileges to give to this role by clicking located to the right of the privilege.
    Privileges are not mutually exclusive, so you may assign more than one.
    1. When Monitor Viewer or Monitor Admin are chosen, optionally click to assign clusters to the role.

      Assign Cluster
      Figure 1. Assign Cluster
    2. Select a cluster by enabling the checkbox next to its name.
      You may select more than one cluster.
    3. Click OK.
      Any users assigned to this role will automatically get access to this cluster to monitor jobs and nodes. The following notification is displayed to any of those users who are currently logged into Access Web: Your view is updated to reflect changes in the CLUSTER privileges where CLUSTER is the name of the cluster.
  6. Click Save.
    The new role is displayed in the Roles list.