Understanding the Workload Manager Access Roles

Account Admin Access Role Type

A user assigned the WXMAccountAdmin access role type has full access to the Workload Manager workload clusters, where they can view, edit, and create cost centers, view, edit, and create auto actions, and view, edit, and create workloads in all the Workload clusters. These users have the least restrictive access permissions.

Table 1. Actions that can be performed by the Account Admin
Resource	Actions
Cluster	View all workload clusters on the Clusters page Rename a workload cluster Delete a workload cluster
Workloads	Create workloads View all workloads in a cluster Update all workloads in a cluster Delete all workloads in a cluster
Queries	View all queries in a cluster
Jobs	View all jobs in a cluster
Chargeback	Create cost centers Update cost centers List cost centers Delete cost centers View all Chargeback related dashboards
Auto Actions	Create auto actions View auto actions Update auto actions Disable auto actions Delete auto actions Enable an auto action email
Cluster Report Emails	Enable cluster report emails

Cluster Admin Access Role Type

A user assigned the WXMClusterAdmin access role type has full access to Workload Manager and can view, edit, and create workloads in the Workload cluster.

Table 2. Actions that can be performed by the Cluster Admin
Resource	Actions
Cluster	View the workload cluster on the Clusters page Rename the workload cluster Delete the workload cluster
Workloads	Create workloads View all workloads in the cluster Update all workloads in the cluster Delete all workloads in the cluster
Queries	View all queries in the cluster
Jobs	View all jobs in the cluster
Cluster Report Emails	Enable cluster report emails

Cluster Access Role Type

A user assigned the WXMClusterUser access role type can view items within Workload Manager, including all workloads, but cannot edit workloads.

Table 3. Actions that can be performed by the Cluster User
Resource	Actions
Cluster	View the cluster on the Clusters page
Workloads	View all workloads in the cluster
Queries	View all queries in the cluster
Jobs	View all jobs in the cluster
Cluster Report Emails	Enable cluster report emails

Workload Access Role Type

A user assigned the WXMWorkloadUser access role type can only view their assigned workloads in the cluster and the jobs and queries within that workload. These users have the most restrictive access permissions.

Table 4. Actions that can be performed by the Workload User
Resource	Actions
Cluster	Disabled note For a Workload user to be able to view the cluster that contains their assigned workloads they must also be assigned the Limited Environment access type. Cloudera recommends assigning the Limited Environment access type to Workload Users as this enables the user to access and view the environment that contains their workloads.
Workloads	View their assigned workloads on the Workloads page
Queries	View all queries within an assigned workload
Jobs	View their jobs within the assigned workload
Cluster Report Emails	Disabled

Limited Environment Access Role Type

The WXMLimitedClusterUser access role type enables a Workload User to view the cluster that contains their workloads. Without this access privilege, Workload users are unable to access or view the environment that contains their workloads.

Table 5. Actions that can be performed by the Limited Environment User
Resource	Action
Cluster	View the cluster on the Clusters page
Workloads	N/A
Queries	N/A
Jobs	N/A
Cluster Report Emails	N/A