Help on Access > Membership & Roles > Roles
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- Access Zone: System
- Displays the default access zone. You can manage roles only in the System access zone.
- Create a Role
- Opens a dialog box that enables you to create a custom role and add users to the role.
- Role Name
- Specifies a name for the role.
- Description
- Specifies a description for the role, such as a summary of tasks members can complete.
- Add a member to this role
- Opens a dialog box that enables you to search for users or groups you want to add to the role. Role members will be able to carry out configuration access tasks based on privileges assigned to the role.
- Search for
- Specifies the type of account you want to search for.
- User
- Specifies a search for a user account.
- Group
- Specifies a search for a group account. You can add an entire group, and thereby all of its members, to another group.
- Well-known SIDs
- Specifies a search for all accounts with well-known SIDs in the system.
- Username
- Specifies the name of the user account you want to search for.
- Group Name
- Specifies the name of the group account you want to search for.
- Provider
- Specifies the authentication provider associated with the account you want to search for.
- Search
- Initiates a search based on the provided criteria.
- Search Results
- Displays a table of user or groups by name that best match the search criteria.
- Select
- Adds the user or group selected from the search results to the role.
- Members
- Table that displays a list of users and groups that are members of the role.
- Members
- Displays the name of the role member.
- Type
- Displays whether the role member is a user, group, or well-known account.
- Actions
- Displays actions you can apply to the role member.
- Remove
- Removes the member from the role.
- Add a privilege to this role
- Opens a dialog box that enables you to select a privilege and specify read or write access.
- Access
- Specifies the type of access members have to a selected privilege.
- read_only Access
- Specifies read-only access of the selected privilege by members of the role.
- read_write Access
- Specifies both read and write access of the selected privilege by members of the role.
- Select a Privilege
- Displays a drop-down menu of configuration access privileges in the system that you can select.
- Privileges
- Table that displays a list of privileges that have been added to the role.
- Name
- Displays the name of the privilege.
- Description
- Displays the description of the privilege.
- Access
- Displays whether the privilege was added to the role with read-only or read-write access.
- Actions
- Displays actions you can apply to the privilege.
- Remove
- Removes the privilege from the role.
- Roles
- Table that displays a list of all roles currently in the system.
- Select an action
- Lists actions that can be applied to multiple roles simultaneously.
- Delete Selection
- Bulk action that deletes from the system each role whose check box has been selected.
- Name
- Displays the name of the role.
- View/Edit
- Opens a dialog box from which you can view current role attributes.
- More
- Displays a list of additional actions that can be applied to the role.
- Copy
- Opens a dialog box that enables you to copy the attributes of the role to create a new role. You can modify the role attributes from the dialog box.
- Delete
- Deletes the role from the system.