Apart from the organization owner role, VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS) supports two default service roles from VMware Cloud Services - administrator and user. In VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS), the organization owner can create and assign additional custom roles from the Access Control page .

VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS) Roles and Permissions

Note: Your organization might have one or more regions. For information about regions, see Managing Regions.
Role Rights/Permissions
Organization Owner
  • Inviting users to the organization or a region within the organization.
  • Creating and assigning roles in the organization or a regio.n
  • Creating and assigning data sets to restrict data access in the organization or a region.
  • Providing Read access for other information in the organization or a region.
Administrator All except organization owner permissions.
User
  • Creating and modifying private dashboards in the organization or a region.
  • Read access for other information in the organization or a region.
Custom As defined in the Access Control page.

Assigning Roles

Roles are of two types - service roles and custom roles.

Service roles
As an organization owner, you can add users and assign service roles to users from the Identity & Management page in VMware Cloud Services. In this page, you can also assign one or more regions to users.
For information about service role assignment, see How do I manage users in my organization in the Using VMware Cloud guide.
Tip: To assign regions to a user, in the Identity & Management page, under Assign Service Roles, add an instance to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS) service and enter the following information:
  • Select a region.
  • Select a role to assign to the user in the selected region.
  • Select whether you want to provide access with no expiry or with an expiry date. If applicable, enter the expiry date.
Custom roles
In VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS), the organization owner can assign additional custom roles from the Access Control page. The organization owner can assign these roles for the organization or for a region within the organization.

For information about custom roles and assigning them in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS), see Controlling User Access.