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How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

sympatiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:29:40 GMT

Hi,

Good day splunkers! Is there a way to restrict a user or set a role wherein if the user logs in, they can only see the dashboard?

Thanks,

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

ngatchasandra — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:40:26 GMT

Hi sympatiko,
After creating user, create a role for this user and assign this role only the read permission for dashboard.

Please, create a role for this user before create this user, thus you can assign this role for this user and assign only the read permission for this user role.

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

sympatiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 08:48:21 GMT

Hi sandra,

Thanks for the tips. I actually did that one, is there any possibilities that the user can see dashboard but cannot do search?

Thanks,

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

ngatchasandra — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:42:30 GMT

Yes, only edit the user role that you have created and under the Capabilities, don't select search in the capabilities list that your role user can have and save.

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

sympatiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:52:41 GMT

Thank you. Do you think is there a way to disable the scrolling bar on the splunk screen?

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

ngatchasandra — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:55:22 GMT

Horizontal (when is occur) bar or vertical bar or both? .

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

sympatiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:02:59 GMT

Hi Sandra, Nevermind that one. I'm more concern about the Capabilities of a user, I tested it but it looks like the search capability is required in order to view the dashboard.

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

ngatchasandra — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:42:55 GMT

For me, if you don't want that user cannot search, either:

under Indexes, don't select no index, leave input Selected search indexes blank and save. Thus, your user cannot run search.
create an app for this dashboard and in the default nav four your app, only call the dashboards which user will see like this for example:

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After do this edit your user and give it this app context by default

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

sympatiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:57:38 GMT

Hi Sandra,

I've followed what you said regarding "under Indexes, don't select no index, leave input Selected search indexes blank and save. Thus, your user cannot run search." . Yes it cannot run search aswell as the dashboard on the use default nav.

Thanks,

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

somesoni2 — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 17:20:39 GMT

Try these steps:

 1. Create a read-only-user role and assign it to that specific user.
 2. For the dashboard this user needs access, provide Read access to the read-only-user role.
 3. For 'search' dashboard under Splunk's search app, Update the permission from "Everyone Read" to "Read to Everyone except read-only-user"

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

sympatiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:44:35 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the tips. I already manage to solve =).

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

splunkreal — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 16:05:42 GMT

GREAT!!!

In fact we need to go User interface or all configurations/Views/Search => permissions and disable read on the read-only role.

Thanks!!!

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

googs524 — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:16:56 GMT

Hi, any idea how you are able to solve this? I am interested to know about the solution as I have a similar problem. I have a dashboard to run, but I don't want user to run the search.

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

splunkreal — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:42:48 GMT

Hi, go to Parameters / All configurations : search => permissions

Re: How to restrict a user's role to only view a dashboard and prevent them from running searches?

ohignett — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:34:53 GMT

How did you manage to already solve it?

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