Permissions for Admin are granted to each user role, as described in the
following table.
| Capability | Operator | Admin | Superuser |
| Access management: Access SMS UI. | x | x | x |
| Administer the logs of the SMS: Read system log. | x | x | x |
| Authentication and authorization administration: View authorization settings. | x | x | x |
| Certificate management: View X509 certificates. | x | x | x |
| Database management: View database information. | x | x | x |
| General SMS management: Ability to view general management, Geo Locator, and IP address ID settings. | x | x | x |
| High Availability: View HA settings. | x | x | x |
| ID Resolver: View ID Resolver. | x | x | x |
| NAT network management: Ability to view NAT and network settings. | x | x | x |
| SNMP user management: View SNMP settings. | x | x | x |
| Status management: View port and system health. | x | x | x |
| View and customize the dashboard. | x | x | x |
| Export archive management: Read export list. | x | x | |
| Named resource management: View email address groups, named IP addresses, and named VLAN IDs. | x | x | |
|
Access management: SMS CLI and SMS web services.
|
x | ||
| Administer the SMS: Access diagnostics, access or manage preferences, and reboot or shutdown the SMS. | x | ||
| Administer the logs of the SMS: Read audit log. | x | ||
| Authentication and authorization administration: Manage authorization settings and manage and view groups or roles. | x | ||
| User management: Manage own resource groups, terminate user sessions, user record management, view other users, and view user sessions. | x | ||
| Certificate management: SMS certificate key, Web certificate, X509 certificate, and X509 certificate private key. | x | ||
| Database management: Manage, backup, or restore database, view backup database information, edit external database information, and clean, edit, or reset database tables. | x | ||
| Export archive management: export and delete export archive. | x | ||
General SMS management: Edit services or system information, enable
IpaddrId settings, manage and view Geo Locator
settings, FIPS manager, manage and view IP address IDs and settings,
remote Syslog management, TLS management, and view general
management settings. |
x | ||
| High Availability: Configure or manage HA. | x | ||
| ID Resolver: Manage ID Resolver. | x | ||
| IP address identifier lookups: DNS, Geo, Meta, NR, Rep, UserId, and WhoIs. | x | ||
| NAT network management: NAT and network management. | x | ||
|
Named resource management: Edit email addresses, named IP addresses, named
VLAN IDs.
|
x | ||
| SNMP user management: SNMP request settings and SNMP traps. | x | ||
| Software administration: Manage software, entitlements, and patches. | x | ||
| User ID IP Correlation: Edit User ID IP correlation, Identity Agents, and agent groups. | x |