Role-based access

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:

Step

Task

Resource

1

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

Managing users and user groups

2

Create 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

3

Modify 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, and users from one tenant cannot access data from another. 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:

Solution Administrator
Technology Specialist
Application Specialist–Applications
Application Specialist–Services
Service Manager
IT Operations User
Executive

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 Groups	Roles and Permissions		Objects
Administrators	Super Admin	All Permissions Assigned	Category	Types	Sources	Objects
			TrueSight Presentation	Monitoring Policy Configuration Types PATROL Solutions PATROL Agent ACLs Devices Groups Applications	TrueSight Presentation Server	All Object Access
			TrueSight Infrastructure	Views Monitor Groups CIs Component Folders Event Folders	Not applicable	All 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 SSO server for the default BmcRealm tenant. Not all default user groups contain default users.

Default user groups	Default users
Administrators	admin bppmws_internal csm_user
Central Monitoring Administrators	None
Model Administrators	service_admin
Monitoring Administrators	event_admin
Operators	oper
Supervisors	user
Viewers	None
WS Full Access	None

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.

Profile	User groups	Roles	Menu access
Solutions Administrator	Administrators	Super 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 User	Operators	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
Executive	Viewers	Read Only	Dashboards Monitoring Applications Devices Events Groups

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Overview of the RBAC process

Authorization profile structure

Default authorization profiles

Predefined user groups and users

Default authorization profiles and menu access

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