Provide resource access to partnership users
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You can grant access to partnership users by assigning them specific roles for folders and projects within your organization.
Partnership admin. Learn more about access roles.
A partner organization must first add members to the partnership before you can assign them roles for resources in your organization. Learn how to add members to a partnership.
Understand roles for partnership users
You can manage roles for members of partner organizations in the same way that you do for your own. However, not all roles are available to partnership users. In particular, you can't grant partner users a role that allows software updates. Updating ONTAP software generally requires direct network access.
You can assign following roles to partner users:
Add a role to a partner user
You provide access to your organization's resources by adding a role to a member. When you assign a role, you specify one resource and one role. You can assign more than one role to a user.
For example, if you had two projects and wanted the same user to have the role of Backup and recovery admin for both, you would need to provide the role to the user for each project. Similarly if you wanted to provide a user with two different roles for the same project, you would need to assign each role separately.
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Select Administration > Identity and access.
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Select Partnerships.
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Select the Partnership initiated tab.
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Select the actions menu
next to the established partnership that you want view and select View details.The Member list displays the members that the partner organization has added to the partnership.
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Select the actions menu
next to the member that you want to assign a role and select Add a role. -
To add a role, complete the steps in the dialog box:
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Select an organization, folder, or project: Choose the level of your resource hierarchy that the member should have permissions for.
If you select the organization or a folder, the member will have permissions to everything that resides within the organization or folder.
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Select a category: Choose a role category. Learn about access roles.
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Select a Role: Choose a role that provides the member with permissions for the resources that are associated with the organization, folder, or project that you selected.
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Add role: If you want to provide access to additional folders or projects within your organization, select Add role, specify another folder or project or role category, and then select a role category and a corresponding role.
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Select Add new roles.
Change or remove a role from a partner user
You can change or remove a role that you have assigned to a member of a partner organization.
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Select Administration > Identity and access.
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Select Partnerships.
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Select the Partnership initiated tab.
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Select the actions menu
next to the established partnership that you want view and select View details.The Member list displays the members that the partner organization has added to the partnership.
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From the Members page, navigate to a member in the table, select
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In the table, expand the respective row for organization, folder, or project where you want to change the member's assigned role and select View in the Role column to view the roles assigned to this member.
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You can change an existing role for a member or remove a role.
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To change a member's role, select Change next to the role you want to change. You can only change a role to a role within the same role category. For example, you can change from one data service role to another. Confirm the change.
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To unassign a member's role, select
next to the role to unassign the member the respective role. You'll be asked to confirm the removal.
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