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User Roles

The User Roles page creates and deletes user roles. Within an user role you can select:

VSA users can belong to one or more VSA user roles. Each user role must be assigned to at least one user role type.

Note: A VSA user logs on with both a user role (functions they can perform) and a scope (scope data objects they can see).  Membership in a user role and a scope is independent of each other.

Note: VSA users can also be assigned to user roles using the System > Users > Roles tab.

Note: See System > Users for a discussion of the Master user role.

Warning: Restrict access to User Roles and Roles for all roles except roles responsible for administrating function access.

Middle Pane

You can perform the following actions in the middle pane of Roles:

Related Pages

The following policies are assigned by user role:

Members tab

The Members tab displays which VSA users are assigned to the role selected in the middle pane.

Access Rights tab

The Access Rights tab in the System > User Roles page determines what functions VSA users belonging to a selected role can perform. For example, access rights can include whether or not a user can open, add, edit or delete a particular record.

Note: Scopes determine whether a user can see certain user-created data structures displayed in the VSA. Roles determine access rights to the functions that act on those data structures.

A navigation tree provides access to each module, folder, item, and control in the VSA.

Specialized Access Rights

Role Types tab

Click the Assign and Remove buttons to change the role types a user role is assigned to.

Roles Types

Kaseya licensing is purchased by role type. There are separate role types for licensing users by user role type and licensing machines by machine role type. Each role type enables selected functions listed in the User Roles > Access Rights tab and Machine Roles > Access Rights tab. The number of role type licenses purchased displays in the System > License Manager > Role Type tab. Each role type license specifies the number of named users and concurrent users allowed.

User Roles Types

Every user role must be assigned to at least one user role type. If a user role is assigned to more than one role type, access to a function is enabled if any one of the role types enables access to that function. Function access can be optionally limited further by user role or machine role. Examples of user role types include, but are not limited to: