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Service Catalog security areas and roles

Service Manager provides the following out-of-box security areas and security roles to control access to the Service Catalog module.

Security areas

Service Manager provides two out-of-box security areas for the Service Catalog module. To access these security areas and view the Service Catalog access rights of different security roles, go to System Administration > Security > Areas.

Area Description
Service Catalog This area contains the default security rights and settings for categories, bundles, and items. The rights will be copied to new roles created for this area. However, the settings will only be inherited if there are no settings specified on the role.
Service Catalog Configuration This area contains the default security rights and settings for Service Catalog administration. The rights will be copied to new roles created for this area. However, the settings will only be inherited if there are no settings specified on the role.

The following table describes their default rights.

Area View New Update Delete/Close Modify Template
Service Catalog True False Never Never False
Service Catalog Configuration True True Always Always True

Security role

Service Manager provides one out-of-box security role, Service Catalog Administrator, for the Service Catalog module. To access this security role and its rights and settings, go to System Administration > Security > Roles. This role has full administration rights to the Service Catalog and Service Catalog Configuration security areas. The following table lists the rights of this role to different security areas.

Area Rights
Calendar Administration Partial Rights
Change Partial Rights
Change Management Configuration No Rights
Change Tasks Partial Rights
Common Configuration Partial Rights
Incident Partial Rights
Incident Management Configuration No Rights
Incident Tasks Partial Rights
Knowledge No Rights
Knowledge Administration No Rights
OO Integration for Tasks Partial Rights
Problem Partial Rights
Problem Management Configuration No Rights
Problem Tasks Partial Rights
Report No Rights
Report Configuration No Rights
Report Schedule No Rights
Request Partial Rights
Request Management Configuration No Rights
Request Tasks Partial Rights
Security No Rights
Service Catalog Admin Rights
Service Catalog Configuration Admin Rights
Service Desk Partial Rights
Service Desk Configuration No Rights
Service Level Management Partial Rights
Service Level Management Configuration No Rights
Survey No Rights
Survey Configuration No Rights
Tailoring No Rights
Timeperiod Partial Rights
Timeperiod Configuration No Rights