How to: Create and edit Roles

Last modified: Tuesday May 09, 2023.

Create and edit Roles to manage what your users can access in your Alta video security systems.

By default, Aware provides two roles. These are:

  • Administrator — by default, Administrators have full permissions, and can create, edit, or delete other Roles and User groups, and can also create new Users and assign their levels of access.
  • Operator — by default, Operators have restricted system access, and cannot access the Appliances, Users, or Rules tools.

You can create additional roles and assign them permissions that suit your system requirements.

System permission roles and device permission roles

You can create two types of roles:

  • System roles can be assigned system wide permissions, such as adding users, creating system rules, and managing audit logs.

  • Device roles can be assigned device permissions, such as viewing live video, adding devices, and viewing alarms.

When you create a user group, you can assign its members a system permission role and any number of device permission roles. For more information, see How to: Create User groups.

Prerequisites

Only users with the Administrator role can create or edit Roles.

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Task — Create a new Role

  1. Choose Tools Tools > Users tool Users.
  2. Open Roles Roles.
  3. To create a device permission role, select the Device permissions tab. To create a system permission role, select the System permissions tab.
  4. Click Add new Role Add.
  5. Type a name for the new Role and press Enter.
  6. For device permission roles:
    1. Select the General permissions to assign to this Role.
    2. Click a tool icon to define individual permissions for that tool.
  7. For system permission roles, select the required permissions.
  8. Click Done.

Task — Edit an existing Role

  1. Click the Roles Roles
  2. To edit a device permission role, choose the Device permissions tab. To edit a system permission role, choose the System permissions tab.
  3. Select the Role to be changed.
  4. For device permission roles:
    1. Change any required General permissions to assiged to this Role.
    2. Click a tool icon to change individual permissions for that tool.
  5. For system permission roles, add or remove any required permissions.
  6. Click Done.

Task — Delete a Role

  1. Click the Roles Roles.
  2. Select the Role to be deleted. You cannot delete the default Administrator or Operator roles.
  3. Click Remove Role Remove.
    1. If the Role is assigned to a user group, choose another role from the drop-down menu to replace it.
  4. Click Delete.
  5. Click Done.