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Understanding the Edge Services portal roles and user management

Use Control Center to grant access to users in the Lumen ® Edge Services portal. 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 Services portal 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, combining robust functionality and ease of use within the Edge Services portal.

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 Services portal.

Roles

When you register for an Edge Services account, you receive access to Control Center, an account with an Edge Services portal 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 Orchestration Write role provides full access to all functionality available within the Edge Services portal.

  • The Edge Orchestration Read-Only role provides view-only access within the Edge Services portal.

Provisioning

 Edge Orchestration Write Edge Orchestration Read-Only
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 Services portal to attach external storage

X

 
Managing an AWS instance (provision, edit, delete, lock and unlock, access the console)

X

 
Viewing details for an AWS instance

X

X
Viewing instances for an AWS cloud

X

X
Managing an AWS security group (create, edit, delete, adding or removing, adding, editing, and deleting rules)

X

 
Viewing global settings of an AWS security group

X

X

Operations

 Edge Orchestration Write Edge Orchestration Read-Only
Viewing the Edge Services portal 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

Monitoring

 Edge Orchestration Write Edge Orchestration Read-Only
Viewing logs and 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

 

Infrastructure

 Edge Orchestration Write Edge Orchestration Read-Only
Managing a key pair (add, delete, share access credentials)

X 

 
Toggling hosts between start and stop state

X

 
Managing an AWS cloud (create, edit, delete)

X

 
Viewing details for an AWS cloud

X

X
Managing an AWS internet gateway (create, edit, delete)

X

 
Managing an AWS subnet (create, edit, delete)

X

 
Viewing details for an AWS subnet

X

X
Managing a route on an AWS VPC router (create, edit, delete)

X

 

General tasks

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

X