1.8 Default Roles

Viewpoint is delivered with these default roles:

  • HPCAdmin – Global administrative role that grants users all Viewpoint permissions.
  • HPCUser – Global user role that enables permissions for users to perform non-administrative workload tasks.

  • NitroAdmin – Administrative user role with permissions to create Nitro application templates and manage other users' Nitro jobs
  • NitroUser – Basic user role with permission to create and manage their own Nitro jobs.
  • RemoteVizAdmin – Administrative user role with permissions to create remote visualization application templates and manage other users' Remote Visualization jobs
  • RemoteVizUser – Basic user role with permissions to create and manage their own Remote Visualization jobs.

If a Reporting license is installed, the following reporting roles are included in the base roles.

  • Reporting Admin – Administrative user role with permissions to create aggregated views, reports, and dashboards and manage aggregated views, reports, and dashboards created by other users.
  • Reporting Manager – Basic user with permissions to create and manage reports and dashboards.
  • Reporting Consumer – Basic user, with permissions to use reports and dashboards.

Viewpoint lets you reset permissions for the default roles and restore the default roles if deleted. See 1.11 Resetting Default Roles and 1.12 Restoring Default Roles, respectively.

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