Role Based Users

Creating Role Based Users and Accessibility

Role: SOE, SRE, L1 and L2 support

The platform administrator can create and assign roles to a user to restrict the access for the user on the SixthSense Platform. The Billing admin user is the super user and is created by Rakuten Customer Support.

The Billing admin user can create the following two kinds of users:

  • The Platform Admin user
  • The Read-only Platform user

Actions that different types of users can perform

The following table lists the various actions users can perform.

Billing admin user

  • Cannot perform edit and delete actions on self.
  • Can create a Platform admin user or Read-only user.
  • Can copy reset link, edit, and delete of other users.

Platform admin user

  • Can copy reset link of self.
  • Can copy reset link, edit, and delete a Read-only platform user.
  • Can create a Read-only platform user.

Read-only platform user

  • Will not have access to User administration tab.

Creating Platform Admin or Read-only Platform user

  1. Navigate to Settings on the left pane from the SixthSense Observability portal page.
  2. Click the User administration tab.
  3. Click + Add user.

The add user screen appears.

Add User screen
  1. In the Add user screen, enter the following details.
FieldDescription
First nameUser’s first name.
Last nameUser’s last name.
EmailUser’s email address.
RoleUser’s role you want to assign.
  1. Click Add user. The password is created for the first time.
  2. Click Copy to copy the randomly generated password which you can share with the user.
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The Billing admin user can perform the following tasks:

  • Add only up to 10 users which includes the Billing admin user role.
  • Copy reset link, edit, and delete Platform admin users.
  • Cannot perform any of the actions for the Billing admin user role.