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This page describes StackState version 5.0.

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Overview

Every user in StackState needs to have a subject and a set of permissions assigned; this combination is called a role. A role describes a group of users that can access a specific data set. StackState ships with four predefined roles and you can also create custom names and groups to match your needs.

Predefined roles

There are four roles predefined in StackState:

  • Administrator - has full access to all views and has all permissions, except for platform management.

  • Platform Administrator - has platform management permissions and access to all views.

  • Power User - typically granted to a user that needs to configure StackState for a team(s), but will not manage the entire StackState installation.

  • Guest - has read-only access to StackState.

The permissions assigned to each predefined StackState role can be found below. For details of the different permissions and how to manage them using the stac CLI, see RBAC permissions

The Administrator role (stackstate-admin): has all permissions assigned, except for access-admin-api, which is assigned only to the Platform Administrator predefined role.

Permissions assigned to the predefined Administrator role (stackstate-admin) are listed below, these were retrieved using the stac CLI. For details of the different permissions and how to manage them using the stac CLI, see RBAC permissions.

$ stac permission show stackstate-admin         
subject           permission                   resource
----------------  ---------------------------  ----------
stackstate-admin  manage-annotations           system
stackstate-admin  execute-scripts              system
stackstate-admin  read-settings                system
stackstate-admin  access-cli                   system
stackstate-admin  run-monitors                 system
stackstate-admin  access-explore               system
stackstate-admin  access-analytics             system
stackstate-admin  access-synchronization-data  system
stackstate-admin  access-log-data              system
stackstate-admin  execute-node-sync            system
stackstate-admin  manage-event-handlers        system
stackstate-admin  access-topic-data            system
stackstate-admin  manage-topology-elements     system
stackstate-admin  import-settings              system
stackstate-admin  export-settings              system
stackstate-admin  execute-restricted-scripts   system
stackstate-admin  perform-custom-query         system
stackstate-admin  read-stackpacks              system
stackstate-admin  update-permissions           system
stackstate-admin  read-permissions             system
stackstate-admin  manage-telemetry-streams     system
stackstate-admin  execute-component-templates  system
stackstate-admin  update-visualization         system
stackstate-admin  upload-stackpacks            system
stackstate-admin  create-views                 system
stackstate-admin  update-settings              system
stackstate-admin  manage-stackpacks            system
stackstate-admin  manage-star-view             system
stackstate-admin  manage-monitors              system
stackstate-admin  execute-component-actions    system
stackstate-admin  manage-service-tokens        system
stackstate-admin  access-view                  everything
stackstate-admin  save-view                    everything
stackstate-admin  delete-view                  everything

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE - from StackState v5.0, the old sts CLI is called stac.

In a future release of StackState, the new sts CLI will fully replace the stac CLI. It is advised to install the new sts CLI and upgrade any installed instance of the old sts CLI to stac. For details see:

Custom roles

Custom names for predefined roles

In addition to the default predefined role names (stackstate-admin, stackstate-platform-admin, stackstate-power-user, stackstate-guest), which are always available, custom role names can be added that have the same permissions. Below is an example of how to do this for both Kubernetes and Linux installations.

Include this YAML snippet in an authentication.yaml when customizing the authentication configuration to extend the default role names with these custom role names.

stackstate:
  authentication:
    roles:
      guest: ["custom-guest-role"]
      powerUser: ["custom-power-user-role"]
      admin: ["custom-admin-role"]
      platformAdmin: ["custom-platform-admin-role"]

To use it in for your StackState installation (or already running instance, note that it will restart the API):

helm upgrade \
  --install \
  --namespace stackstate \
  --values values.yaml \
  --values authentication.yaml \
stackstate \
stackstate/stackstate

Create custom roles and groups

The instructions below will take you through the process of setting up a new group called StackStateManager

  1. Subjects need two pieces of information: a subject name and a subject scope. Create a new subject - set its name to stackstateManager and set the scope to 'label = "StackState" AND type = "Business Application”’ as in the following example:

    # `stac` CLI:
stac subject save stackstateManager 'label = "StackState" AND type = "Business Application"'

# new `sts` CLI:
# Command not currently available in the new `sts` CLI. Use the `stac` CLI.

    Please note that when passing an STQL query in a stac CLI command, all operators (like =, <,AND, and so on) need to be surrounded by spaces, as in the above example.

    Also, please note that the subject's name is case-sensitive.

  2. Configured subjects need permissions to access parts of the UI and to execute actions in it. StackState Manager role requires access to the specific view of business applications, and there is no need to grant any CRUD, or StackPack permissions - they will not be used in day-to-day work by any Manager. To grant permission to view the Business Applications view, follow the below example:

    # `stac` CLI:
stac permission grant stackstateManager access-view "Business Applications"

# new `sts` CLI:
# Command not currently available in the new `sts` CLI. Use the `stac` CLI.

    Please note that the subject's name, as well as permissions, are case-sensitive.

File-based authentication

If your StackState instance is configured with a file-based authentication, then you need to add newly created subjects to the config file and enable authentication.

  1. In the application_stackstate.conf file locate the authentication block and change enabled = false to enabled = true as in the below example:

       authentication {
     enabled  = true
     ...
   }

  2. Add new users and subjects to the logins table in the application_stackstate.conf as shown in the example below. Note that the default roles are always available (stackstate-admin, stackstate-platform-admin, stackstate-power-user and stackstate-guest)

     authentication {
   enabled  = true

   basicAuth = false

   # Amount of time to keep a session when a user does not log in
   sessionLifetime = 7d

   authServer {
     authServerType = "stackstateAuthServer"

     stackstateAuthServer {
       # echo -n "password" | md5sum
       # Open http://www.md5.net/md5-generator/
       # Enter your password and press submit, you will get an MD5 Hash
       # Set the MD5 Hash into `auth.password`
       logins = [
       { username = "admin", password: "5f4dcc3b3mn765d61d8327deb882cd78", roles = ["stackstate-admin"] }
       { username = "guest", password: "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99", roles = ["stackstate-guest"] }
       { username = "manager", password: "3g4dcc3b5aa765d61g5537deb882cf99", roles = ["stackstateManager"] }
       ]
     }
   }
 }
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