Reports role and privilege mappings

1 Introduction
2 Supported JasperServer roles
3 Out-of-the-box Abiquo role mappings
4 Report permissions
5 Changing role access to reports
6 Support for custom roles

Introduction

The JasperServer authentication scheme enables you to map Abiquo Roles and Privileges to JasperServer roles. This means you can ensure that users can only see the reports they can access.

Additionally, by default Abiquo Cloud Administrators can now administer the JasperServer.

Note: Unlike in Abiquo, each JasperServer user can have more than one role.

Supported JasperServer roles

The following table shows the JasperServer Roles used by Abiquo:

Role	Description

Role	Description
ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR	This out-of-the-box JasperServer role is granted full access to ALL objects in the abiquo JasperServer repository.
ROLE_ABIQUO_DATACENTER_ADMIN	This Abiquo specific role is used to control access to reports which report information relating to datacenters.
ROLE_ABIQUO_ENTERPRISE_ADMIN	This Abiquo specific role is used to control access to reports which are designed to be run by Enterprise Administrators.
ROLE_USER	This out-of-the-box JasperServer role is granted access to reports designed to be run by regular Abiquo users.

Out-of-the-box Abiquo role mappings

The following table shows the mappings between Abiquo roles and Jasper server roles

Abiquo role	JasperServer role

Abiquo role	JasperServer role
CLOUD_ADMIN	ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR
ENTERPRISE_ADMIN	ROLE_ABIQUO_ENTERPRISE_ADMIN
USER	ROLE_USER
Any Abiquo role with Abiquo "View Datacenter details" privilege	Additional role in JasperServer: ROLE_ABIQUO_DATACENTER_ADMIN

Report permissions

The table below defines the roles that are granted access to a particular report:

Report pack	Report name	JasperServer roles

Report pack	Report name	JasperServer roles
		ROLE_ ADMINISTRATOR	ROLE_ABIQUO_ ENTERPRISE_ ADMIN	ROLE_ USER	ROLE_ABIQUO_ DATACENTER_ ADMIN
Audit & compliance	User audit
Cloud operations	Virtual machine usage
End user	Cost code usage
	Enterprise activity
	Inventory
	Repository usage by enterprise
	Resource consumption & cost
	Resource usage by enterprise
Planning	Datacenter resource planning
	Infrastructure growth
	Resource allocation limits
	Server summary
	System activity

Changing role access to reports

To change the access rights to a particular report (or report folder) within the Jasper repository:

Log in as a JasperServer user with the ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR role
Right-click the report or folder in the repository and select the ‘Permissions...’ option. A dialog will open.
Set ‘Read-only’ for roles that should access the report/folder, and set ‘No Access’ for roles that should not.

Note: These changes may be lost if the reports and/or folders are updated. Always check modified permissions after each report upgrade.

Support for custom roles

If a user does not have one Abiquo's out-of-the-box roles, the first time an Abiquo user logs into the JasperServer, the Abiquo role will be imported into the JasperServer role system as an externally defined role.

By default this role will have the same access to the reports as allowed to the ROLE_USER.

Edit the externally defined role to add or remove access to reports as required.