Granting or Denying Explicit Privileges for Deployment Functions

Purpose

Follow this procedure when you want to grant or deny explicit privileges to users or groups, for deployment features. Certain privileges relating to promotion and demotion can be specified for specific projects/streams and deployment stages, and privileges for deployment and rollback can also be specified for specific areas. When this is the case these extra fields will be displayed in the Grant/Deny Users/Groups dialog boxes.

For details of these functions see the Deployment Guide.

PRIVILEGES  Manage Privileges

NOTE  When certain privilege or role assignments are updated in the Administration Console, the changes may not take effect during existing client sessions because of privilege caching. In this case, the user will need to restart the client session for the new privilege settings to apply. This behavior depends on variables that can be set in the dm.cfg file. For further details, see the System Administration Guide.

To grant or deny Privileges for Deployment for specific projects/streams/deployment stages

1. On the Privileges tab, click the Privileges button: on the toolbar.

2. In the navigation pane, select the category to which the privilege belongs from the list, Administration Privileges, or Product Level Privileges.

3. Expand the folder:  for the subcategory to which the privilege belongs in the navigation tree and select the privilege.

4. In the Explicit Grant/Deny Rules section of the content pane, click the  button and choose an option: Grant User, Deny User, Grant Group, Deny Group.

5. For Project/stream, if you want the assignment to only apply to a specific project or stream, click the browse button and select a project or stream.

6. For Stage, if you want the assignment to only apply when the selected project/stream is at a specific deployment stage, select the stage from the list.

7. If the privilege relates to deployment or rollback, for Deployment Area(s) select the areas to which the privilege applies from the list.

8. Depending on the dialog box displayed, move the users or groups you want to be granted or denied into the Granted Users, Granted Groups, Denied Users, or Denied Groups list:

• To add a user/group, select the name in the Available Users/Groups to grant/deny list, and click the >> link to move it to the Granted/Denied Users/Groups list

• If you do not want to add a user/group, select the name in the Granted/Denied Users/Groups list, and click the << link.

9. Click OK to confirm the changes. A confirmation dialog box is displayed.

10. Click Yes to commit the changes.

To de-assign an explicit privilege rule for a Deployment privilege:

1. On the Privileges tab, click the Privileges button: on the toolbar.

2. In the navigation pane, select the category to which the privilege belongs from the list, Administration Privileges, or Product Level Privileges.

3. Expand the folder:  for the subcategory to which the privilege belongs in the navigation tree and select the privilege.

4. In the Explicit Grant/Deny Rules section of the content pane, select the User/Group and click the  button.

5. Click OK in the De-assign User/Group from Privilege Rule dialog box.I.

Related Topics

Grant/Deny Users Dialog Box

Grant/Deny Groups Dialog Box