As the Cloud Manager administrator, you can add and remove users and assign roles. Once removed, a user can no longer access the Cloud Manager. However, the user's profile remains in API Manager.
About this task
Perform the following steps to add users to the Cloud Manager.
Procedure
-
In the Cloud Manager, click Users.
-
In the Cloud Manager, click Members.
-
In the Users page, click Add.
The Add User window is displayed.
- If you are adding a role to an existing user that is not displayed
on the Users page, complete the following steps:
- Click Existing User.
- Click the search icon to list all users, or enter a search term
and click the search icon to list a subset of users.
- Select the required user from the search results.
- If you are adding a new user, click New User and
enter the user's email into the text field.
- To assign the user a role, complete the following steps:
-
Click the Add organization role to this user icon icon.
-
Select the required user role. The assigned role is displayed in the Role column.
The available roles are:
- Cloud Owner
- The Cloud Owner can access all Cloud Manager tabs and perform all activities associated with those tabs.
Note: The Cloud Owner role cannot be assigned to a user.
- Cloud Administrator
- The Cloud Administrator can access all Cloud Manager tabs except the Organizations tab and perform all activities associated with those tabs.
- Organization Manager
- The Organization Manager can access the Organizations tab and perform all activities associated with that tab.
- System UserSystem
- This role can be assigned to any user of the Cloud Manager. Users assigned this role have full Cloud Manager access. In addition, users have REST access to all APIs but cannot access the API Manager or the Developer Portal user interfaces.
- Topology Administrator
- The Topology Administrator role can be assigned to any user of the Cloud Manager. Users assigned this role can log into the Cloud Manager and access the Home, Clusters, SSL Profiles and Settings tabs.
The following table shows which
Cloud Manager tabs each user role can access.
Table 1. Permitted user role activities
Tab |
Cloud Owner |
Cloud Administrator |
Organization Manager |
System User
|
System |
Topology Administrator |
Analytics |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Services |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Organizations |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Users |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
TLS Profiles |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
User Registries |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Settings |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
For full details of the permissions that are assigned to the various
Cloud Manager roles, see
API Connect user roles.
-
Click Add.
The user name is added to the Name column, and the email invitation is delivered if the user is a new user. Invitation Pending is displayed in the Status column of the Users window.
Results
The API Connect user account
is created and is activated when the user follows the activation link in the email
invitation.
What to do next
The new user can access the Cloud Manager user interface. The user's authorization is defined by the roles assigned to them.