Roles

On the Roles page, you can view the available roles, their description, and the actions that can be assigned to users in this account for each service.

A security administrator can add one or more roles, or edit the users and own roles.

The IBM® Storage Defender®:
  • IBM Storage Defender core services roles are listed in the table, see Table 1.
  • Data Resiliency Service is managed through Access points. To learn more about Access points and assign access to individual users, see User management.
    Note: For the IBM Storage Defender core services and Data Resiliency Service, see the instructions in Viewing roles.
  • Data Management Service user roles are managed directly from the DMS user interface (UI), under Settings > Access Management. On the Access Management page, under the Roles tab, you can see a list of default roles. See Managing user roles.

IBM Storage Defender core roles

The following table lists the IBM Storage Defender core roles:

Table 1. Roles for the IBM Storage Defender core services
Roles Description
SRE Site reliability engineer
Security admin Security admins have Service user permissions and can manage access to IBM Storage Defender and its services.
Service user Service users can access the services for which they have an assigned role.