Add or Edit Role Dialog

In the Add Role and Edit Role dialogs, you can add or edit a role and the permissions assigned to it. You can also specify the query-handling attributes for role members to lock down the information that they can retrieve. The structure of these dialogs is the same. The only difference is that you either add a new role or modify an existing role.

When you change permissions for a role, the change is immediately applied to users who are assigned the particular role after the role is saved.

What do you want to do?

Role I want to ... Show me how
Admin View preconfigured roles Review the Preconfigured NetWitness Platform Roles
Admin Create a new role (Optional) Add a Role and Assign Permissions

Admin

Edit a role

(Optional) Add a Role and Assign Permissions
Admin Delete a role (Optional) Add a Role and Assign Permissions

Related Topics

Verify Query and Session Attributes per Role

Role Permissions

Quick Look

To access this view, go to netwitness_adminicon_25x22.png (Admin) > Security > Roles tab and in the toolbar, click netwitness_icon-add.png, or select a role and click netwitness_icon_edit.png.

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The Add Role and Edit Role dialogs include three sections.

1 Role info
2 Attributes
3 Permissions

Role Info

This is the information in the Role Info section.

Feature Description
Name The name of the user role.
Description An optional description of the user role.

Attributes

The following table describes the fields in the Attributes section..

Field Description
Core Query Timeout (Optional) Specifies the maximum number of minutes that a user can run a query. The default value is 5 minutes. This timeout only applies to queries performed from Investigation. If this value is set, it must be zero (0) or greater. A value of zero represents no timeout.
Core Session Threshold Controls how the service scans meta values to determine session counts. This value must be zero (0) or greater. If this value is greater than zero, a query optimization will extrapolate the total session counts that exceed the threshold. When the meta value returned by the query reaches the threshold, the system will:
  • Stop its determination of the session count
  • Show the threshold and percentage of query time used to reach the threshold
The default value is 100000. The limit you specify here overrides the Max Session Export value defined in the Investigate view settings.
Core Query Prefix (Optional) Filters query results to restrict what the role members see. By default, this is blank. For example, the 'service' = 80 query prefix prepends to any queries run by the user and the user can only access meta of HTTP sessions.

Permissions

The following table describes the features in the Permission section.

Feature Description
Module
tabs		 There are fifteen default tabs, one for each module: Administration, Admin-server, Alerting, Config-server, Incidents, Investigation, Investigation-server, Integration-server, Live, Malware, Orchestration-server, Reports, Response-server, Security-server and Dashboard. Additional tabs may be available based on the installation. Each tab lists the permissions for a module.
Assigned
column		 Checkbox that indicates if a module permission is assigned to the role.
Description
column		 List of all permissions for the module.
Save Saves the role with the selected permissions assigned to it.
Cancel Cancels any work and closes the dialog.