Authorizing users to access dashboards

Work with roles to authorize users to view or edit dashboards.

Before you begin

Associate roles to dashboards to make them available to users. Users with the roles corresponding to those assigned to the dashboard are able to work with the dashboard as defined by the individual role. Launch the Self-Service Dashboards app using a web browser:
Self-Service Dashboards web address
https://host_name:port_number/dwc/mobile
where, host_name and port_number are the host name and port number of the Dynamic Workload Console to which you are connecting.
Required role
Administrator, Mobile User

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:

Available Roles

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: 
https://host_name:port_number/dwc/addOns/devices/ssmanagement/ssmanagement.jsp
where host_name and port_number are the host name and port number of the Dynamic Workload Console you are connecting to.

Mobile User is the minimum role required to access Self-Service Catalog. Users with this role can view services to which they are authorized and submit service requests. Associate at least one entity to this role to allow other roles access to the Self-Service Catalog.

You can use all the other available roles to fine tune the authorization mechanism. By associating catalogs and services to required roles, you can authorize only users with at least one of those roles to see and use them. To associate users to specific roles, use the Dynamic Workload Console, as described in Defining users and roles.

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

  1. Tap the Self-Service Dashboards section to launch the application.
  2. Tap Roles. The role icon role icon displays next to each object until you exit the edit role mode by tapping the Roles button again.
  3. Tap the dashboard for which you want to associate a role.
  4. 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.
  5. Save to exit and tap Roles again to exit the edit role mode.

Results

Only users who have at least one of the roles associated to a dashboard can view, edit, or use it.