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Add Role Rights for Users

If the predefined user roles do not fit your requirements, you can add custom user roles. Ideally, you create the roles that each unique product operator needs to be able to perform his or her job responsibilities.

Custom roles work best within a system of custom groups. Custom groups let you precisely grant access to dashboards and product features while restricting access to sensitive data. The same groups that you create to organize data can serve as “permission groups” when you set up user account permissions.

A new role has no rights until you add them. The following graphic shows the Add Role dialog in the CA Performance Center Console with a role that is beginning to be defined.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Console for CA Performance Center or CA NetQoS Performance Center as a user with the required administrative role rights.
2. Navigate to the Manage Roles or Roles List page.

   The page displays the current list of roles.

3. Click New.

   The Add Role dialog opens.

4. Supply the required information and make selections in the fields provided:

   Name

   (Optional) Identifies the role. Limited to 45 characters.

   Description

   (Optional) Describes the role. For example, identifies the job-related duties that the associated user performs.

   Enable Role

   Enables the role to make it active. Required to give users with this role the access granted by role rights.

5. Specify the menus that will be visible to users with the new role:
   1. Select Menu Set (CA PC) or select a menu or product from the list at the bottom of the dialog (NPC).
   2. Click Edit.

      The Edit Menu Set dialog opens. Menus in the 'Available Menus' list can be added to the role.

   3. Click an item on the left that you want to add to the role, then click the right arrow.

      Use Shift + Click or Ctrl + Click to select multiple items.

      Each selected item moves to the Selected Menus list.

   4. (Optional) Use the Up and Down arrows to move items around in the list. The order of menus in the list determines their order on the Dashboards tab.
   5. Click OK.

      You return to the Add Role page.

6. Set the Performance Center rights for the role:
   1. Select Performance Center (CA PC) or NetQoS Performance Center (NPC).
   2. Click Edit.

      A dialog opens, which you use to select Performance Center access rights.

   3. Click an item on the left that you want to add to the role, then click the right arrow.

      The access right moves to the Selected Rights list.

   4. (Optional) Use the Up and Down arrows to move items around in the list. The order of role rights determines their priority in cases where rights overlap.
   5. Click OK.

      You return to the Add Role page.

7. Set the CA Network Flow Analysis rights for the role:
   1. Select the name of the registered CA Network Flow Analysis instance.
   2. Click Edit.

      A dialog opens, which you use to select access rights for CA Network Flow Analysis in the same way you selected access rights for Performance Center.

   3. When the access rights are set up correctly, click OK.

      The new role is created and appears in the Role List.

8. Repeat the previous step to set the rights for any additional data source that you want to include.
9. Click Save on the Add Role page.

   You return to the Manage Roles page (CA PC) or Roles List page (NPC).

Note: When you finish creating a role, assign it to a user account as a separate step. Roles are inoperative until they are assigned to user accounts. Only users with the 'Administer Users' and 'Administer Roles' role rights can assign roles to user accounts.