Chapter 1. Red Hat Insights policies service overview Policies evaluate system configurations in your environment, and can send notifications when changes occur. Policies you create are applicable to all systems in your Insights inventory. You can create and manage policies using the Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux user interface in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, or using the Insights API. Policies can assist you by managing tasks such as: Raising an alert when particular conditions occur in your system configuration. Emailing a team when security packages are out of date on a system. Using policies to monitor configuration changes in your inventory and notifying by email requires: Setting user email preferences (if not already set). Creating a policy to detect configuration changes as a trigger and selecting email as the trigger action. Note Configure User Access in Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console > the Settings icon (⚙) > Identity & Access Management > User Access > Users . See User Access Configuration Guide for Role-based Access Control (RBAC) for more information about this feature and example use cases. 1.1. User Access settings in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console User Access is the Red Hat implementation of role-based access control (RBAC). Your Organization Administrator uses User Access to configure what users can see and do on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console (the console): Control user access by organizing roles instead of assigning permissions individually to users. Create groups that include roles and their corresponding permissions. Assign users to these groups, allowing them to inherit the permissions associated with their group's roles. 1.1.1. Predefined User Access groups and roles To make groups and roles easier to manage, Red Hat provides two predefined groups and a set of predefined roles. 1.1.1.1. Predefined groups The Default access group contains all users in your organization. Many predefined roles are assigned to this group. It is automatically updated by Red Hat. Note If the Organization Administrator makes changes to the Default access group its name changes to Custom default access group and it is no longer updated by Red Hat. The Default admin access group contains only users who have Organization Administrator permissions. This group is automatically maintained and users and roles in this group cannot be changed. On the Hybrid Cloud Console navigate to Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console > the Settings icon (⚙) > Identity & Access Management > User Access > Groups to see the current groups in your account. This view is limited to the Organization Administrator. 1.1.1.2. Predefined roles assigned to groups The Default access group contains many of the predefined roles. Because all users in your organization are members of the Default access group, they inherit all permissions assigned to that group. The Default admin access group includes many (but not all) predefined roles that provide update and delete permissions. The roles in this group usually include administrator in their name. On the Hybrid Cloud Console navigate to Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console > the Settings icon (⚙) > Identity & Access Management > User Access > Roles to see the current roles in your account. You can see how many groups each role is assigned to. This view is limited to the Organization Administrator. See User Access Configuration Guide for Role-based Access Control (RBAC) for additional information. 1.1.2. Access permissions The Prerequisites for each procedure list which predefined role provides the permissions you must have. As a user, you can navigate to Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console > the Settings icon (⚙) > My User Access to view the roles and application permissions currently inherited by you. If you try to access Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux features and see a message that you do not have permission to perform this action, you must obtain additional permissions. The Organization Administrator or the User Access administrator for your organization configures those permissions. Use the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console Virtual Assistant to ask "Contact my Organization Administrator". The assistant sends an email to the Organization Administrator on your behalf. 1.1.3. User Access roles for the Policies service The following predefined roles on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console enable access to policies features in Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Policies administrator role. The Policies administrator role provides read and write access allowing these users to perform any available operation on policies resources. This predefined role is in the Default admin access group . Policies viewer role. The Policies viewer role provides read-only access. (If your organization determines that the default configuration of the Policies viewer role is inadequate, a User Access administrator can create a custom role with the specific permissions that you need.) This predefined role is in the Default access group . Note If you configured groups before April 2023, any user who was not an Organization Administrator will have the Policies administrator role replaced with the Policies viewer role. Modifications made to the Default access group before April are not changed. Additional Resources How to use User Access in the User Access Configuration Guide for Role-based Access Control (RBAC). Predefined User Access roles

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