Defining A New Role - Extreme Networks Ridgeline Guide Manual

Using Identity Management
A role can:
Be independent of a parent or a child
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Have children (8 maximum)
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Have only one parent (maximum)
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Defining a New Role

You can define network wide roles and specify the match criteria for placing a device under the role, as
well as, set role priority. You can create roles in a hierarchy to place a user under a role.
To create a role hierarchy, you define one or more roles as child roles of what becomes parent role.
Ridgeline supports a maximum of 5 children levels. A parent role can have up to 8 children but a child
cannot have more than one parent. Multiple inheritances are not allowed. In a hierarchy, only policies
are inherited, but not the match criteria from parent roles. Ridgeline allows a maximum of 64 roles and
each role name can have a maximum of 32 characters.
Priorities can have values from 1 to 255. One (1) is the highest priority The priority of the role
determines the role to which a user is mapped. The default priority is 255. The device is placed under
the role with lesser priority value in case of a conflict. If both roles have equal or the default priority, the
last role created gets the higher priority.
To add a new role, do the following:
1 On the menu bar, go to File>New>Role, or right click on the Roles list to open the menu. Existing
roles are shown on Tree View and Table View. See
Figure 218: Choose a New Role From the Menu
2 Enter the role name, an optional description, and its priority. See
Use the following role naming conventions. A role name:
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Figure 218. The Create new role dialog opens.
Figure 219.
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