20.0 Assigning Roles to Users and Groups

Roles that Can Perform This Task: Cloud Administrator, Organization Manager (Organization users only)

System users and user groups can be assigned both system-level roles (Approver, Build Administrator, Catalog Manager, Cloud Administrator, and Zone Administrator) and organization-level roles (Business Group Viewer, Business Service Owner, Organization Manager, and Sponsor). Organization users can be assigned organization-level roles only.

For role descriptions, see Section 16.2, Cloud Manager Roles.

  1. On the main navigation bar, click Organizations.

  2. To assign a role to a user, click the Users tab, select the user, then click Edit to display the Edit User dialog box.

    or

    To assign a role to a user group, click the User Groups tab, select the user group, then click Edit to display the Edit User Group dialog box.

  3. (System user or group only) Assign system-level roles.

    The system-level roles are Approver, Build Administrator, Catalog Manager, Cloud Administrator, and Zone Administrator. These roles can be assigned only to System users or groups.

    1. To assign the Approver, Build Administrator, Catalog Manager, or Cloud Administrator role, click the System tab, click Add, select the desired roles, then click OK.

    2. To assign the Zone Administrator role, click the Zone tab, click Add, select the desired zone, then click OK.

  4. Assign organization-level roles.

    The organization-level roles are Approver, Build Administrator, Business Group Viewer, Business Service Owner, Organization Manager, and Sponsor. The Approver and Build Administrator roles can be assigned only to System users and groups. The other roles can be assigned to both System and Organization users and groups.

    Several of the roles can be assigned at the organization, business group, or business service level. For example, you can make a user a Sponsor for a business group, in which case the user can approve requests for business services from that business group only. Or, you can make the user a Sponsor for the organization, in which case the user can approve requests for all business services in the organization.

    1. Click the Organization tab to add a role at the organization level, click the Business Group tab to add a role at the business group level, or click the Business Service tab to add a role at the business service level.

    2. Click the role that you want to assign.

      For example, if you selected the Business Group tab and you want to enable the user or group to create business services for the business group, click Business Service Owner.

    3. Click Add, select the object (organization, business group, or business service) to which you want the role to apply, then click OK to add it to the list.

  5. When you have finished assigning roles, click Save to save the role changes.