User roles in VCS

Table: User role and privileges lists the predefined VCS user roles, with a summary of their associated privileges.

Table: User role and privileges

User Role

Privileges

Cluster administrator

Cluster administrators are assigned full privileges. They can make configuration read-write, create and delete groups, set group dependencies, add and delete systems, and add, modify, and delete users. All group and resource operations are allowed. Users with Cluster administrator privileges can also change other users' privileges and passwords.

To stop a cluster, cluster administrators require administrative privileges on the local system.

Note:

Cluster administrators can change their own and other users' passwords only after they change the configuration to read or write mode.

Cluster administrators can create and delete resource types.

Cluster operator

Cluster operators can perform all cluster-level, group-level, and resource-level operations, and can modify the user's own password and bring service groups online.

Note:

Cluster operators can change their own passwords only if configuration is in read or write mode. Cluster administrators can change the configuration to the read or write mode.

Users with this role can be assigned group administrator privileges for specific service groups.

Group administrator

Group administrators can perform all service group operations on specific groups, such as bring groups and resources online, take them offline, and create or delete resources. Additionally, users can establish resource dependencies and freeze or unfreeze service groups. Note that group administrators cannot create or delete service groups.

Group operator

Group operators can bring service groups and resources online and take them offline. Users can also temporarily freeze or unfreeze service groups.

Cluster guest

Cluster guests have read-only access to the cluster, which means that they can view the configuration, but cannot change it. They can modify their own passwords only if the configuration is in read or write mode. They cannot add or update users. Additionally, users with this privilege can be assigned group administrator or group operator privileges for specific service groups.

Note:

By default, newly created users are assigned cluster guest permissions.

Group guest

Group guests have read-only access to the service group, which means that they can view the configuration, but cannot change it. The group guest role is available for clusters running in secure mode.