Add Role Rights for Users

If the predefined user roles do not fit your requirements, you can add custom user roles. Ideally, you create the roles that each unique product operator needs to be able to perform his or her job responsibilities.
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If the predefined user roles do not fit your requirements, you can add custom user roles. Ideally, you create the roles that each unique product operator needs to be able to perform his or her job responsibilities.
Custom roles work best within a system of custom groups. Custom groups let you precisely grant access to dashboards and product features while restricting access to sensitive data. The same groups that you create to organize data can serve as “permission groups” when you set up user account permissions.
A new role has no rights until you add them.
Follow these steps:
  1. Log in to
    NetOps Portal
    as a user with the required administrative role rights.
  2. Navigate to the
    Manage Roles
    page.
    The page displays the current list of roles.
  3. Click
    New
    .
    The
    Add Role
    dialog opens.
  4. Supply the required information and make selections in the fields provided:
    • Name
      Identifies the role. Limited to 45 characters.
    • Description
      (Optional) Describes the role. For example, identifies the job-related duties that the associated user performs.
    • Role Status
      Select
      Enabled
      to make the role active. Required to give users with this role the access granted by role rights.
  5. Specify the menus that will be visible to users with the new role:
    1. Select
      Menu Set
      .
    2. Click
      Edit
      .
      The
      Edit Menu Set
      dialog opens. Menus in the
      Available Menus
      list can be added to the role.
    3. Click an item on the left that you want to add to the role, then click the right arrow.
      Each selected item moves to the
      Selected Menus
      list.
    4. (Optional) Use the Up and Down arrows to move items around in the list. The order of menus in the list determines their order on the
      Dashboards
      tab.
    5. Click
      OK
      .
      You return to the
      Add Role
      page.
  6. Set the
    NetOps Portal
    rights for the role:
    1. Select
      DX NetOps
      .
    2. Click
      Edit
      .
      A dialog opens, which you use to select
      NetOps Portal
      access rights.
    3. Click an item on the left that you want to add to the role, then click the right arrow.
      The access right moves to the
      Selected Rights
      list.
    4. (Optional) Use the Up and Down arrows to move items around in the list. The order of role rights determines their priority in cases where rights overlap.
    5. Click
      OK
      .
      You return to the
      Add Role
      page.
  7. Set the
    DX NetOps Network Flow Analysis
    rights for the role:
    1. Select the name of the registered
      DX Netops Network Flow Analysis
      instance.
    2. Click
      Edit
      .
      A dialog opens, which you use to select access rights for
      DX NetOps Network Flow Analysis
      in the same way you selected access rights for
      NetOps Portal
      .
    3. When the access rights are set up correctly, click
      OK
      .
      The new role is created and appears in the
      Role List
      .
  8. Repeat the previous step to set the rights for any additional data source that you want to include.
  9. Click
    Save
    on the
    Add Role
    page.
    You return to the
    Manage Roles
    page.
When you finish creating a role, assign it to a user account as a separate step. Roles are inoperative until they are assigned to user accounts. Only users with the 'Administer Users' and 'Administer Roles' role rights can assign roles to user accounts.
For more information about how to manager user roles, see Manage User Account Roles.