Overview Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu Roles

A role is a predefined set of privileges. Application Transformer for VMware Tanzu supports predefined roles such as ROOT, ADMIN, OPERATOR, VIEWER. You can pair these roles with a new user.

Root

Users with the ROOT role can view and perform all actions on the application. The user created during appliance deployment is an admin user with the ROOT role.

Admin

Users with the ADMIN role can view and perform all actions on the application, except containerization.

Operator

Users with the OPERATOR role can view all flows, but restricted from managing credentials and credential policies, and certain tasks under Administration section.

Viewer

Users with the VIEWER role can just audit all the information, and not allowed to perform any other actions, except creating support bundles.

For more details, see the below table.

Table 1. Feature Availability Based on User Role

Feature	Root	Admin	Operator	Viewer
Manage Credentials	Yes	Yes	No	No
Managing Credential Policy	Yes	Yes	No	No
Manage Component Signatures	Yes	Yes	No	No
Managing Tasks	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Register vCenter	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Scan and Introspect vCenter	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Discover Application Topology	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
View VM details	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Introspect VMs	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Assign Tags	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
View and Edit Component Details	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Add Notes to Components	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Create Image Template	Yes	No	Yes	No
Add an Image Registry	Yes	No	Yes	No
View Embedded Harbor Details	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Add Third Party Artifacts	Yes	No	Yes	No
WebLogic Containerization	Yes	No	Yes	No
Tomcat Containerization	Yes	No	Yes	No
Process Containerization	Yes	No	Yes	No
Add and Associate vRealize Network Insight	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
View Applications and Discovery	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create Users and Assign Roles	Yes	Yes	No	No
Backup and Restore an Appliance	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Update the Appliance Version	Yes	No	No	No
Create a Support Bundle	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Join or Leave the Customer Experience Improvement Program	Yes	Yes	No	No