How to create restricted user role.

[manivannan]

Hi,I am new to splunk. I want to create a restricted user role who can just see the dashboards. he cant do search and view log information. Please help how can i achieve this.

Thanks in advance.

[Drainy]

I have added a good link on it below.

But basically you just need to go to Manager in the top right; Select Access Controls in the User box down in the bottom right; Give the role and name and select the App with the dashboards you want to use; (a sidenote, an App is more like a workspace so you want to put all the dashboards per specific user / usergroup into a single app to restrict access); You can then select different capabilities or none depending on what you want the user to be able to do.

You are best building a dashboard without any search control and only access to the one App which contains these dashboards to restrict a user. Base the role on the User role or you may encounter some problems and bare in mind that they require some search capabilities to access some dashboards as a dashboard is essentially a collection of searches, if you restrict this then they won't be able to view a great deal on the dashboard.

See the following links for more detail;

User Roles:
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/4.2.3/admin/Addandeditroles

Apps (Dashboards): http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/User/SplunkApps

[Drainy]

Thats alright 🙂 Feel free to click the tick under the 0 and arrows to accept my answer if it works for you!

[manivannan]

Thanks you.. let me try your solution