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Role-based access (RBAC) to the features and components comprised in TrueSight Operations Management is enabled by persona-based authorization profiles. Each authorization profile is associated with one or more BMC Atrium Single Sign-On realms and comprises user groups, roles and permissions, and objects. Collectively, the authorization profile components determine the features and objects that users can access and monitor. You can use each default authorization profile as is, you can modify its attributes, or you can create your own authorization profiles. 

This topic provides an overview of authorization profiles and the components that compose them.

Overview of the RBAC process

To configure access control, you must complete the following steps:

StepTaskResource
1Set up users and user groups in BMC Atrium Single Sign-On.

Managing users and user groups

2Create or modify the components that compose an authorization profile. You can create or modify these components in any order.

Managing roles

Specifying objects

Creating, editing, and deleting PATROL Agent ACLs

3Modify the default authorization profiles or create new ones.Managing authorization profiles

Realms and tenants

Realms segment users in BMC Atrium Single Sign-On and enable multitenancy support. In Operations Management, each realm represents a tenant.

The BmcRealm, with default user groups and users, is created in BMC Atrium Single Sign-On when you install the Presentation Server component.

For information about supported versions of BMC Atrium Single Sign-On, see Presentation Server system requirements.

Authorization profile structure

The following diagram illustrates the basic structure of an authorization profile. Each profile is associated with one or more realms and comprises user groups, roles and permissions, and objects. You can use each default authorization profile as is, you can modify any of its elements, or you can create your own authorization profiles. 

The Superadmin in the BmcRealm can create and modify authorization profiles and apply them to multiple tenants. Authorization profiles created by tenant administrators apply to users of that tenant. For more information about tenant user administration, see Access control for SaaS administrators.

Authorization Profile components
When creating an authorization profile, you must already know the user groups, roles, and objects required for the new profile. You cannot create or modify components during the creation of the authorization profile. 

See the following topics for more information about modifying and creating the required elements:

Default authorization profiles

The following persona-based authorization profiles are created in the Presentation Server for the BmcRealm during the installation of the TrueSight Presentation Server component:


  • API-Only User
  • Application Specialist–Applications
  • Application Specialist–Services
  • Capacity Administration
  • Capacity View
  • Executive
  • IT Operations User
  • Service Manager
  • Solution Administrator
  • Technology Specialist
Solution Administrator profile
By default, users in the Solution Administrator profile are associated with the roles, permissions, and objects that enable those users to access all features in the products, including the ability to modify and create authorization profiles. 

The Solution Administrator profile has unrestricted access to all realms and all features and objects in the Operations Management solution. The following table shows the user groups, roles and permissions, and objects the compose the Solution Administrator authorization profile. 

Solution Administrator
BmcRealm
User GroupsRoles and PermissionsObjects
Administrators



Super Admin



All Permissions Assigned



CategoryTypesSourcesObjects
TrueSight Presentation

Monitoring Policy Configuration Types

PATROL Solutions

PATROL Agent ACLs

Devices

Event Groups

Groups

Applications

TrueSight Presentation ServerAll Object Access
TrueSight Infrastructure

Views

Monitor Groups

CIs

Component Folders

Event Folders

Not applicableAll Object Access

Predefined user groups and users

When you install BMC TrueSight Presentation Server, the following default user groups and users are created in your BMC Atrium Single Sign-On (SSO) server for the default BmcRealm tenant. Not all default user groups contain default users. 

Default user groupsDefault usersDescription
Administratorsadmin Default administrator user
bppmws_internal 

Internal user that supports:

  • Distributed Service Models
  • BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management integration
  • BMC Service Resolution integration
csm_user

Internal user that supports:

  • BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management integration
  • BMC Change Management integration
  • BMC Service Resolution integration
API Groupapiuser

Internal user that supports TrueSight Capacity Optimization Integration

  • TrueSight Operations Manager 10.1 Extractor in Capacity Optimization 10.5
  • Generic Extractor in Capacity Optimization 10.5
Capacity_AdministrationNoneNA
Capacity_ViewNoneNA
Central Monitoring AdministratorsNoneNA
Model Administratorsservice_adminDefault service model administration user for the Presentation Server and Infrastructure Management
Monitoring Administratorsevent_adminDefault event administration user for the Presentation Server and Infrastructure Management
OperatorsoperDefault operator user for the Presentation Server and Infrastructure Management
SupervisorsuserDefault supervisor user for the Presentation Server and Infrastructure Management
ViewersNoneNA
WS Full AccessNoneNA

After you register an App Visibility portal in the TrueSight console, a new user, App_Visibility_Internal_tspsHostID, is automatically added to Atrium Single Sign-On. This is an internal user with a randomly generated password and should not be changed.

 

For more information about default users and passwords, see Default users and user groups.

Default authorization profiles and menu access

The following table lists the default authorization profiles and the default user groups and roles that compose them. To help you determine whether the default authorization profiles meet the access requirements of your organization, the last column in the table shows the menu options available to users in each default authorization profile. 

ProfileUser groupsRolesMenu access
Solutions AdministratorAdministratorsSuper Admin

Dashboards

Monitoring

  • Applications
  • Devices
  • Events
  • Groups

Configuration

  • Applications
  • Groups
  • Synthetic Scripts
  • Application Discovery

Administration

  • Components
  • Authorization Profiles
  • Integrations
  • PATROL Agent ACLs
  • Roles
  • User Accounts
  • App Visibility Agents
  • App Visibility Agent Policies

Central Monitoring Administration

Application Specialist–Services

Central Monitoring Administrators

Monitoring Administrators 

Service Model Administrators

Supervisors 

WS Full Access 

Blackout Administrator 

Data Collection Administrator

Deployment Administrator 

Event Administrator 

Event Supervisor 

Monitoring Administrator

Service Administrator 

Service Supervisor 

Web Services Access 


Dashboards

Monitoring

  • Applications
  • Devices
  • Events
  • Groups

Configuration

  • Applications
  • Groups
  • Synthetic Scripts
  • Application Discovery

Administration

  • Components
  • App Visibility Agents
  • App Visibility Agent Policies

Central Monitoring Administration

Application Specialist–Applications

Central Monitoring Administrators

Monitoring Administrators 

Service Model Administrators  

Supervisors  

WS Full Access  

 

Application Operator 

Application Supervisor 

Blackout Administrator 

Data Collection Administrator

Deployment Administrator 

Event Administrator 

Event Supervisor  

Monitoring Administrator

Service Administrator 

Service Supervisor  

Web Services Access  

 

 

Dashboards

Monitoring

  • Applications
  • Devices
  • Events
  • Groups

Configuration

  • Applications
  • Groups
  • Synthetic Scripts
  • Application Discovery

Administration

  • Components
  • App Visibility Agents
  • App Visibility Agent Policies

Central Monitoring Administration

Technology Specialist

Central Monitoring Administrators

Monitoring Administrators 

Supervisors 

WS Full Access 

Blackout Administrator 

Data Collection Administrator

Deployment Administrator 

Event Administrator 

Event Supervisor 

Monitoring Administrator

Service Supervisor 

Web Services Access 

 

Dashboards

Monitoring

  • Applications
  • Devices
  • Events
  • Groups

Configuration

  • Applications
  • Groups
  • Synthetic Scripts
  • Application Discovery

Administration

  • Components
  • App Visibility Agents
  • App Visibility Agent Policies

Central Monitoring Administration

IT Operations UserOperators

Application Operator

Data Collection Operator 

Event Operator 

Service Operator

Dashboards

Monitoring

  • Devices
  • Events
  • Groups
Service Manager

Central Monitoring Administrators

Model Administrators

Monitoring Administrators 

Supervisors 

WS Full Access 

 

Event Administrator 

Service Administrator 

Event Supervisor 

Service Supervisor 

Data Collection Administrator 

Web Services Access 

Blackout Administrator 

Deployment Administrator 

Monitoring Administrator

Dashboards

Monitoring

  • Applications
  • Devices
  • Events
  • Groups

Configuration

  • Applications
  • Groups
  • Synthetic Scripts
  • Application Discovery

Administration

  • Components
  • App Visibility Agents
  • App Visibility Agent Policies

Central Monitoring Administration

ExecutiveViewersRead Only

Dashboards

Monitoring

  • Applications
  • Devices
  • Events
  • Groups
Capacity AdministrationCapacity_AdministrationCapacity Administrator

Dashboards

Administration

  • Components
  • Atrium SSO
  • User Accounts
Capacity ViewCapacity_ViewCapacity OperatorDashboards