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Veritas Data Insight Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2020-07-14

Product(s): Data Insight (6.1.5)

About Data Insight users and roles

Before a user can log in to Veritas Data Insight, you must add an account for that user. The user can then use that account to log in to the Console. The user account can be any account that is valid on the Management Server system. This includes local system accounts as well as users belonging to the domain which the Management Server is a part of.

When you create an user account, a role (set of access privileges) is associated with the account. Roles specify access privileges to the Veritas Data Insight system. For example, a role might let users view access and permissions data, but prevent them from adding or deleting filers. Data Insight role-based access control governs access to product features and functionality. Roles consist of the user privileges that determine what a user can see and do in the Management Console.

The Data Insight administrator (a user mapped to the predefined Server Administrator role) and a user with a User Administrator role assign roles to other users. Users can be mapped to one role only. Data Insight ships with predefined roles that you can assign to user accounts.

Table: Veritas Data Insight roles summarizes the various Data Insight roles.

Table: Veritas Data Insight roles

Role name	Description
Server Administrator	Allows the user to perform all actions in the product GUI that includes setting up all infrastructure (including devices, users, and others) and view all the access and permissions data.
Product Administrator	Allows the users to manage filer settings and optionally to view all the access and permissions data for the given filers. Product administrator role, configured for a selected set of filers/web applications, is not allowed to add new filers or delete configured filers.
Report Administrator	Allows the user to view and edit all reports that are configured in the system and all data on the Workspace tab. Additionally, the Report Administrator may or may not be configured to take post processing actions on a report output. A Report Administrator does not have access to the Settings tab.
Workflow Administrator	This role has access to all sub-tabs of the Workflows tab, but does not have access to the Settings tab. The role allows the user to do the following tasks: Configure the Self-Service Portal settings. View, create, edit, copy, and delete all workflow templates. Create workflows for paths The Workflow Administrator has access to all configured data sources, DFS paths, and containers and can select them to create workflows. View and manage (edit, submit, and delete) workflows created by Server Administrator or other workflow administrators. Take remediation action (archive or remove permissions) on workflows created by all workflow administrators. However, the workflow administrators cannot view the status of the remediation actions triggered from the Workflows > Audit tab. Log in as custodian into the Self-Service Portal to take the necessary actions.
User Administrator	Allows the user to assign roles and manage the permissions to the user accounts. The User Administrator can create new Data Insight users, delete users, and manage the scope of their permissions. The user assigned the User Administrator role only has access to the Settings > Data Insight Users screens. The User Administrator does not have access to any other parts of the console.
User	Allows the users to view all permissions data. However, user in this role may or may not be allowed to view activity data of other users and certain reports. See Add or edit Data Insight user options . Users assigned this role also do not have access to any tasks on the Settings tab. The User Administrator can manage all users created by the Server Administrator and other user administrators.
Storage User	Allows the users to view storage-related data in the Workspace tab, but does not allow them to view permissions data or audit logs. Users in this role do not have access to the Settings tab.

Note:

Only a Server Administrator or a User Administrator can add a user with the Report Administrator, Workflow Administrator, or User Administrator role.