Managing Enterprise Automation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Procedure 2.1. Instructions

1. Navigate to https://controller.lab.example.com and log in as the admin user with redhat as the password.

2. Create a user, sam, as a Normal User.

   1. Navigate to Access → Users and then click Add.

   2. On the Create New User page, fill in the details as follows:

      Field	Value
      First Name	Sam
      Last Name	Simons
      Email	sam@lab.example.com
      Username	sam
      Password	redhat123
      Confirm Password	redhat123
      User Type	Normal User
      Organization	Default

   3. Click Save to create the new user.

3. Verify the roles for the newly created sam user.

   1. Click the Roles tab to see the user’s roles.

   2. User sam has the Member role for the Default organization.

   3. Click admin → Logout in the upper-right corner to log out and then log back in as the sam user with redhat123 as the password.

   4. User sam has limited access. In the left navigation, some items are not displayed, such as Administration → Notifications, Administration → Management Jobs, Administration → Instance Groups, and Settings.

   5. Navigate to Access → Users. User sam cannot add, modify, or delete users. This user can update basic settings, such as the first name, last name, email, username, and password fields.

   6. Click sam → Logout in the upper-right corner to log out.

4. Create a user, sylvia, as a System Auditor.

   1. Log back in as the admin user and use redhat as the password.

   2. Navigate to Access → Users and then click Add.

   3. On the Create New User page, fill in the details as follows:

      Field	Value
      First Name	Sylvia
      Last Name	Simons
      Email	sylvia@lab.example.com
      Username	sylvia
      Password	redhat123
      Confirm Password	redhat123
      User Type	System Auditor
      Organization	Default

   4. Click Save to create the new user.

5. Verify the roles for sylvia.

   1. Click the Roles tab to see the user’s roles. Notice that user sylvia has the System Auditor role.

   2. Log out and log back in as sylvia user with redhat123 as the password.

   3. The user sylvia has access to all elements, such Users, Teams, Projects, Credentials, and so on. Although the user can see all of the resources, the user cannot add, modify, delete, or use any of the resources.

   4. Navigate to Access → Users. The user sylvia cannot add, modify, or delete users. This user can update basic settings, such as the first name, last name, email, username, and password fields.

   5. Click sylvia → Logout in the upper-right corner to log out.

6. Create a user, simon, as a System Administrator.

   1. Log back in as the admin user and use redhat as the password.

   2. Navigate to Access → Users and then click Add.

   3. On the Create New User page, fill in the details as follows:

      Field	Value
      First Name	Simon
      Last Name	Stephens
      Email	simon@lab.example.com
      Username	simon
      Password	redhat123
      Confirm Password	redhat123
      User Type	System Administrator
      Organization	Default

   4. Click Save to create the new user.

7. Verify the roles for simon.

   1. Click the Roles tab to see the user’s roles. This time the Roles page explicitly displays the message: System administrators have unrestricted access to all resources.

   2. Log out and log back in as simon user with redhat123 as the password.

   3. The user simon has access to all elements, such as Users, Teams, Projects, Credentials, and so on.

   4. Navigate to Access → Users. The user simon can add, modify, and delete users.

   5. Click simon → Logout to log out of the automation controller web UI.