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User Roles in Virtana Platform

When the Virtana Platform account is set up, an organization is created as part of the platform, with an administrative user associated with it. This user can invite additional users to the organization. Thereafter, anyone assigned an administrator role can invite users.

If you have an Enterprise License, you can have multiple parent organizations at a peer level. You can also have sub-organizations in a child relationship to the parent organization. Each organization and sub-organization has the same roles available and the same privileges associated with the roles.

Users can be assigned the following roles, with associated privileges:

Administrator

  • Has access to all management functions available from the Settings sprocket

  • Has full access to all Virtana Platform modules that are licensed and installed

  • Can add or edit user accounts

  • Can view Alert, Cluster Overview, On-Premises Storage Array Cost & Capacity Summary, and On-Premise Compute Cost and Capacity dashboards

  • Can view alerts from all Container Observability clusters and Infrastructure Observability appliances for which access is granted using Data Access Group(s)

  • Can acknowledge alert, execute various OOB actions on the alert

  • Can view executed actions report

  • Can view and modify alert enrichment and response policies

  • Can access the Container Observability cluster or Infrastructure Observability appliance for which access is granted using Data Access Group(s)

  • Can view reports and modify report settings in Cloud Cost Management

  • Can view and modify policies in Cloud Cost Management

MSP Administrator

  • Has access to all management functions available from the Settings sprocket

  • Has full access to all Virtana Platform modules that are licensed and installed

  • Can add or edit user accounts

  • Can view Alert, Cluster Overview, On-Premises Storage Array Cost & Capacity Summary, and On-Premise Compute Cost and Capacity dashboards

  • Can view alerts from all Container Observability clusters and Infrastructure Observability appliances for which access is granted using Data Access Group(s)

  • Can acknowledge alert, execute various OOB actions on the alert

  • Can view executed actions report

  • Can view and modify alert enrichment and response policies

  • Can access the Container Observability cluster or Infrastructure Observability appliance for which access is granted using Data Access Group(s)

  • Can view reports and modify report settings in Cloud Cost Management

  • Can view and modify policies in Cloud Cost Management

Reader

  • Has read-only access to an organization specified by an administrator

  • Can view users from the given organization from the Settings sprocket

  • Can view Alert, Cluster Overview, On-Premises Storage Array Cost & Capacity Summary, and On-Premise Compute Cost and Capacity dashboards

  • Can view alerts from all Container Observability clusters and Infrastructure Observability appliances for which access is granted using Data Access Group(s)

  • Can view executed actions report

  • Can view alert enrichment and response policies

  • Has read-only access to Container Observability cluster or Infrastructure Observability appliance for which access is granted using Data Access Group(s)

  • Can view, but cannot modify, reports in Cloud Cost Management

  • Can view, but cannot modify, policies in Cloud Cost Management

  • Can view cloud integration in Cloud Cost Management

Data Ingester

  • Can ingest metric and external alerts in the VP platform

  • This role can be only available while creating client credentials that can be used to communicate with VP platform using APIs

Related Topics

User Management in Virtana Platform

Managing Your Profile and User Settings

Organizations in Virtana Platform

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