Users and groups

How a system of users and groups allows different types of access to the Dynamic Workload Console.

In the Dynamic Workload Console you can manage the users to authorize them to the different views to which every role is associated. From the Manage Roles panel you can also create customized roles and share the boards. Users are granted access to resources based on the role to which they have been assigned. The roles in which users are defined or the role assigned to users determines the operations they can perform and which resources are visible to them. This means that depending on your user role designation, you might not see all of the items described in this help system. The groups or predefined roles available are:
API User
Users in this group can use only the Dynamic Workload Console APIs to perform the available actions. Logging to the Dynamic Workload Console through a Web browser would not give them access to any feature. For more details about the Dynamic Workload Console APIs, see https://<DWC_hostname>:<port>/dwc/api.
Administrator
Users with this role can see the entire portfolio and use all features of the Dynamic Workload Console.

Users with this group can also access and use all features of the Self-Service Catalog and theSelf-Service Dashboards mobile applications. From the Self-Service Catalog mobile application, these users can create and edit catalogs, create and edit services, add services to catalogs, submit services associated to job streams, and share catalogs and services with other users. From the Self-Service Dashboards mobile application, these users can create and edit dashboards to filter for jobs and workstations, display a dashboard of results, perform recovery actions on a single result.

From the Manage Roles panel, the administrator can add entities, manage pinned pages and shared boards.
Analyst
Users in this group can manage Dynamic Workload Console reports and user preferences.
Broker
Users in this group can define Broker settings, create and manage Broker jobs and resources, and monitor Broker computers and resources.
Developer
Users in this group can create, list, and edit workload definitions, workstations, and event rule definitions in the IBM Workload Scheduler database.
Mobile User

Users in this group can manage the Self-Service Catalog and theSelf-Service Dashboards mobile applications but the actions they can perform are limited to submitting service requests (job streams) from the Self-Service Catalog and , from the Self-Service Dashboards mobile application, displaying a dashboard of results and performing recovery actions on them.

Operator
Users in this group can see Dynamic Workload Console:
  • All Monitor tasks.
  • Jobs and job streams to be submitted on request
  • Set User Preferences
The following table lists some entries of the navigation toolbar, and some activities you can perform from the Dynamic Workload Console. Beside each item, the table shows the groups whose users are authorized to access them.
Table 1. Menu and Group Permissions
Menu Item Groups with Permission
Quick Start Administrator
All Configured Tasks

Administrator,
Operator

Manage Workload Reports Administrator, Analyst
Design -> Workload Definitions

Administrator
Developer

Planning & Submission -> Workload Forecast

Administrator,
Operator

Administration -> Workload Submission

Administrator
Operator

Monitoring & Reporting

Administrator,
Operator

Design -> Workload Definitions

Administrator

Reporting

Administrator,
Analyst

Security ->Manage Engines

Administrator

Security -> Manage Settings

Administrator

Administration → Broker Settings; Design → Broker Design; Monitoring & Reporting → Broker Monitoring

Administrator, Broker