Authorizing users to access dashboards
Work with roles to authorize users to view or edit dashboards.
Before you begin
- Self-Service Dashboards web address
where, host_name and port_number are the host name and port number of the Dynamic Workload Console to which you are connecting.https://host_name:port_number/dwc/mobile
- Required role
- TWSWEBUIAdministrator, TWSWEBUIBusinessDeveloper
About this task
You can associate different roles to users to authorize them to perform different tasks. View and edit rights are based on Dashboard Application Services Hub role definition.
The following list shows the available roles, based on which you can authorize users to different actions and objects:
To know what your roles are, from the home page, tap User.
Using the following roles you can differentiate between users who can only view dashboards and users who can also create and edit them.
- Self-Service Dashboards
- By defining filter criteria to be applied to your jobs and workstations,
you can view dashboards and drill down to more detailed information
about the jobs and workstations that match the criteria. You can also
perform recovery actions on the jobs and workstations. Launch the Self-Service Dashboards app from your mobile device by connecting to the following URL:
where host_name and port_number are the host name and port number of the Dynamic Workload Console you are connecting to.https://host_name:port_number/dwc/ssmanagement.jsp - To launch and use this application, you must
have one of the following roles:
- TWSWEBUIAnalyst
- This is the minimum role required to access Self-Service Dashboards. Users with this role can view dashboards for which they are authorized but they cannot modify dashboards.
- TWSWEBUIAdministrator
- Users with this role can create, edit, and delete dashboards. They can also associate roles to dashboards to authorize other users to work with them.
- TWSWEBUIBusinessDeveloper
- Users in this group can access and use the Self-Service Catalog and
the Self-Service Dashboards mobile
applications. From the Self-Service Catalog mobile
application, these users can create and edit catalogs, create and
edit services, add services to catalogs, delete services and catalogs,
and submit services associated to job streams. From the Self-Service Dashboards mobile
application, these users can create and edit dashboards to filter
for jobs and workstations, display and view a dashboard of results,
delete dashboards, and perform recovery actions on a single result.
To share catalogs, services, and dashboards with other users, the
TWSWEBUIBusinessDeveloper can assign them to the custom roles that
the TWSWEBUIBusinessDeveloper possesses but not to predefined roles.
Users with these same custom roles can work with the catalogs, services,
and dashboards. Users with all of the custom roles can submit services;
view, edit, and delete services, catalogs, and dashboards; but users
with only one or some of the custom roles can only submit services,
and view services, catalogs, and dashboards.
If a user with the Administrator role, creates catalogs, services, and dashboards and does not assign any roles to them, then users with the TWSWEBUIBusinessDeveloper role cannot see or work with them.
Warning: If a custom role is removed from a catalog, service, or dashboards, in addition to the TWSWEBUIBusinessDeveloper user, users with this same custom role can no longer see and work with them, even if they possess other custom roles that are currently assigned to the catalog or service. The Administrator must reassign the custom role to the catalog, service, or dashboard to make it accessible again to the TWSWEBUIBusinessDeveloper user and other users with the same custom role.
Roles can be associated to dashboards in read-only mode. Users that are assigned roles in the read-only mode will have access to share a dashboard with other users in the read-only mode. These users can view the dashboard, drill down to subsets of the jobs and workstations but cannot perform recovery actions on these jobs or workstations.
To associate a dashboard to a role, perform the following steps:
Procedure
- Tap the Self-Service Dashboards section
to launch the application. - Tap Roles. The role icon
displays next to each object until you exit the edit role mode by tapping the Roles button again. - Tap the dashboard for which you want to associate a role.
- From the displayed list of roles, select the ones you want to associate to the selected service. Double tab the role icon if you want to assign in read-only mode.
- Save to exit and tap Roles again to exit the edit role mode.