Creating Custom Web User Roles

Procedure

Step 1

[New Web Interface Only] On the Security Management appliance, click to load the legacy web interface.

Step 2

Choose Management Appliance > System Administration > User Roles.

Step 3

Click Add Web User Role.

Tip

Alternatively, you can create a new role by duplicating an existing Web User Role: Click the Duplicate icon in the applicable table row, then modify the resulting copy.

Step 4

Enter a unique name for the user role (for example, “canadian-admins”) and a description.

Note

The name must contain only lowercase letters, numbers, and dashes. It cannot start with a dash.

Step 5

Choose whether you want the policies and custom URL categories to be visible or hidden by default.

Step 6

Choose whether you want Publish privileges turned on or off.

This privilege allows the user to publish any Configuration Master for which the user can edit Access Policies or URL Categories.

Step 7

Choose whether to start with new (empty) settings or to copy an existing custom user role. If you choose to copy an existing user role, choose from the list the role that you want to copy.

Step 8

Click Submit to return to the User Roles page, which lists the new user role.

Note

If you have enabled the anonymized feature within web reporting, all user roles with access to web reporting will have unrecognizable user names and roles in the interactive reports page. See the Scheduling Web Reports section in chapter Using Centralized Web Reporting and Tracking. The exception is the Administrator role, which is able to see actual user names in the scheduled reports. If the anonymize feature is enabled, scheduled reports that are generated by the Operator and Web Administrator are anonymized.

If you use the Web > Utilities > Security > Services Display > Edit Security Services Display page to hide one of the Configuration Masters, the User Roles page also hides the corresponding Configuration Master column; however, privilege settings for the hidden Configuration Master are retained.