KACE Systems Management Appliance 14.1 Common Documents

Roles assigned to users to control their access to the Administrator Console and User Console. If the Organization component is enabled on your appliance, the permissions available to these roles depends on the Organization Role assigned to the organization.

Administrator

The most powerful user role on the appliance. By default, users with the Administrator role have permission to see or change information and settings. This includes promoting or demoting other users by changing their roles. The Administrator role cannot be altered or deleted. Assign this role only to trusted administrators.

Staff members assigned the Administrator role have permission to manage and modify Service Desk tickets from the Tickets tab in the Administrator Console, though they might not be able to own tickets themselves.

Users with the Administrator role can also use the security, scripting, and distribution features to resolve Service Desk tickets, then document the issues in the Knowledge Base.

The Administrator role primarily interacts with the appliance through the Administrator Console.

No Access

Users with this role cannot log on to the Administrator Console or User Console.

Read Only Administrator

This role has the ability to view but not change any information or settings in the appliance. This role is useful for oversight personnel, such as supervisors.

This role primarily interacts with the appliance through the Administrator Console.

User Console Only

This role is for appliance users. By default, this role has permission to create, view, and modify Service Desk tickets.

This role interacts with the appliance exclusively through the User Console.

Create a Service Desk staff role

You can create a Service Desk staff role to establish permissions for users who work on Service Desk settings and components.

By default, users with the Administrator role have permission to change all Service Desk components, including creating and removing users. In addition, you can create a more limited Service Desk role for your organization. Users with this role have permission to work on tickets, add items that can be downloaded from the User Console, add articles to the Knowledge Base, and manage announcements that appear on the User Console home page. However, they do not manage users, run reports, or change appliance settings. This guide refers to this group as Service Desk Admin.

If the Organization component is enabled on your appliance, you can create separate Service Desk Admin roles for each organization.

Go to the Role Detail page:

Log in to the appliance Administrator Console, https://appliance_hostname/admin. Or, if the Show organization menu in admin header option is enabled in the appliance General Settings, select an organization in the drop-down list in the top-right corner of the page next to the login information.

On the left navigation bar, click Settings, then click Roles.

Select Choose Action > New.

In the Name field, provide name, such as Service Desk Admin.

In the Description field, provide a brief description of the role, such as Used for Service Desk Administrators.

This appears on the Roles list.

Click the [Expand All] link next to Administrator Console Permissions to display the permissions settings for all categories.

Select these custom permissions for the new role:

Click Save.

The Roles page shows the new role. When a user who is assigned to this role logs in, the appliance component bar shows the available features.

Category	Item	Permission level
Home	All	All Read
Inventory	Devices	WRITE
	Software	WRITE
	Software Catalog	WRITE
	License Compliance	HIDE
	Processes	HIDE
	Startup Programs	HIDE
	Services	HIDE
	Discovery Schedules	HIDE
	Discovery Results	HIDE
	SNMP Inventory Configurations	HIDE
Monitoring	Devices	READ
	Alerts	WRITE
	Profiles	HIDE
	Maintenance Windows	HIDE
	Log Enablement Packages	HIDE
Assets	All	HIDE
Distribution	All	HIDE
Scripting	All	HIDE
Security	All	HIDE
Service Desk	Tickets	WRITE
	User Downloads	WRITE
	Knowledge Base	WRITE
	Announcements	WRITE
	Archive	READ
	Configuration	READ
Reporting	All	All Hide
Settings	All	All Hide
User Console	All	All Read

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