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Understanding the Edge Service Manager roles and user management

Use Control Center to grant access to users in the Lumen® Edge Service Manager. Learn how to add and manage users in your tenant, apply one or more permissions to the user's account, view the permissions for users in your tenant, and change them.

Getting started

The Edge Service Manager provides the power and convenience to manage all your services (such as Lumen® Edge Bare Metal) in one common place. Enhanced capabilities of Lumen® Edge Orchestrator enables bring your own cloud (BYoC) management and automation, combining robust functionality and ease of use within the Edge Service Manager.

Managing users

The Control Center system administrator for your organization can create new users, assign users to billing account numbers, manage users in their tenant, and assign permissions to gain access to the Edge Service Manager.

Roles

When you register for an Edge Services account, you receive access to Control Center, an account with an Edge Service Manager tenant with one or more permissions, a billing account, and Control Center credentials for the account creator. Use the descriptions provided in the tables below when determining which permissions to apply to a new user created in Control Center.
 

  • The Edge User Write role provides full access to all functionality available within the Edge Service Manager.

  • The Edge User Read role provides view-only access within the Edge Service Manager.

Provisioning

 Edge User Write Edge User Read
Managing a bare metal server network (provision, delete)

X

 
Viewing details for a bare metal server network

X

X
Managing a bare metal server (provision, edit, delete)

X

 
Viewing details for a bare metal server

X

X
Accessing the Network Storage tab in the Edge Service Manager to attach external storage

X

 
Add or remove a secuity group on an instance

X

 
Managing a job (create, edit, delete, execute)

X

 
Viewing details for a job

X

X

Operations

 Edge User Write Edge User Read
Viewing the Edge Service Manager dashboard

X

X
Viewing a report and scheduled report

X

X
Managing a report (create, delete)

X 

 
Managing a scheduled report (create, edit, delete)

X

 
Viewing an activity and activity history

X

X
Executing API scripts on instances and API billing access

X

X

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Library

 Edge User Write Edge User Read

Creating automated tasks (ansible playbook, chef, email, file template, HTTP, powershell script, restart, shell script, write attribute)

X 

 
Executing an automated task

X 

 
Managing an operational workflow (create, execute)

X 

 
Creating a provisioning workflow

X 

 
Managing a power schedule (create, delete, edit)

X 

 
Managing an execute schedule (create, delete, edit)

X 

 
Creating a file template

X 

 
Managing a spec template (clone, create, delete, edit)

X 

  
Managing a cluster layout (clone, create, delete, edit)

X 

 
Managing a blueprint layout (create)

X 

 
Integrating an account (ansible, chef, Git)

X 

 

Infrastructure

 Edge User Write Edge User Read
Managing a key pair (add, delete, share access credentials)

X 

 
Toggling hosts between start and stop state

X

 
Managing a security group (create, edit global settings, delete, add, edit, and delete rules)

X 

 
Viewing global settings of a security group

X

X

Monitoring

 Edge User Write Edge User Read
Viewing app monitors

X

X 
Managing an app monitor (create, edit, delete, mute)

X

 
Viewing a list of checks and check details

X

X
Managing checks (create, edit, mute, unmute, delete)

X

 
Viewing a list of monitoring groups and details for a monitoring group

X 

X 
Managing a monitoring group (create, edit, mute, unmute, delete)

X

 
Viewing monitoring incidents and monitoring incident details

X

X
Managing a monitoring incident (create, edit, mute, unmute, close, reopen)

X 

 
Viewing monitoring contacts

X

X
Managing a monitoring contact (create, edit, delete)

X 

 
Viewing an alert rule

X

X 
Managing an alert rule (create, edit, delete)

X

 

General tasks

 Edge User Write Edge User Read
Remote console access for AWS instances and hosts and automatic login to the remote console

X