Manual Chapter : About user roles

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F5 iWorkflow

  • 2.3.0
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As a system manager, you need a way to differentiate between users and to limit user privileges based on their responsibilities. The iWorkflow™ system has a default set of roles you can assign to a user. Roles persist and are available after an iWorkflow system failover.

Roles definitions

iWorkflow™ ships with several standard roles, which you can assign to individual users.

Role Description
Administrator Responsible for overall administration of all licensed aspects of the iWorkflow system. These responsibilities include:
  • adding individual users
  • assigning roles
  • discovering BIG-IP® systems
  • installing updates
  • activating licenses
  • configuring an iWorkflow high availability (HA) configuration
Tenant A tenant is an entity that can consist of one or more users accessing resources provided by an administrator. : These responsibilities include:
  • customizing and deploying application templates
  • monitoring the health statistics and performance of applications and servers
Note: The iWorkflow system creates a new role when an administrator creates a new tenant. When you create a tenant, you specify the connectors that tenant can access. The name of the new role is based on the tenant name. For example, creating a new tenant named headquarters-user, produces a new role named headquarters-user (Cloud Tenant).

Associating a user or user group with a role

Before you can associate a user or user group with a role, you must create a user or user group.
When you associate a user or user group with a role, you define the resources users can view and modify. You can associate multiple roles with a given user.
  1. Log in to iWorkflow™ with the administrator user name and password.
  2. At the top of the screen, click Access Control.
  3. In the Users or User Groups panel, click the name you want to associate with a role, and drag and drop it on a role in the Roles panel.
    A confirmation popup screen opens.
  4. Click the Confirm button to assign the user or user group to the selected role.
This user or user group now has access to the resources associated with the role you specified.

Disassociating a user from a role

If you want to change the resources a user can view and modify, you can use this procedure to disassociate a user from an assigned role.
  1. Log in to iWorkflow™ with the administrator user name and password.
  2. At the top of the screen, click Access Control .
  3. In the Users panel, for the user you want to edit, click the gear icon and then select Properties.
  4. For the User Roles property, delete the user role that you want to disassociate from this user.
  5. Click the Save button to save your changes.
This user no longer has the privileges associated with the role you deleted.