Managing metadata policies

Policies might be used to automatically tag a set of documents on a periodic basis. In addition, policies might be used to send sets of documents to be deep-inspected by a registered application.

Roles and permissions

Data User
Users with this role can create, modify, and view their policies. Policies can be applied only to the collections the user has access to.

Users with the Data User role cannot use a COLLECTION tag when they create or modify policies.

Collection Admin
Users with this role can create, modify, and view their policies. Policies can be applied only to the collections that they administer. Users with the Collection Admin role cannot use a COLLECTION tag when they create or modify policies.
Collection User
Users with this role can access metadata that is collected by IBM Spectrum® Discover, but metadata access can be restricted by the collections that are assigned to users in this role.
  • Users assigned with the Collection User role can:
    • Run scans of collections the user is assigned.
    • View policies of the collections the user is assigned.
    • List any type of tag.
  • Users assigned with the Collection User role cannot:
    • Create, update, and delete any policies.
    • Create, modify, and delete any tags.
Data Administrator
Users with this role can create, modify, view, and delete policies.
Security Administrators
Users with this role cannot create, modify, view, or delete policies.
Service User
Users with this role cannot create, modify, view, or delete policies.