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DPA roles and privileges

When you add user accounts in DPA, you assign each user a role. The role determines the user's privileges.

Administrator role

Administrators have access to all DPA functionality, including all setup, administration, and support options.

DPA requires at least one Administrator account, which is created during installation.

Only administrators can perform certain actions, such as:

Register and unregister database instances and VMs
Allocate licenses
Run advanced support utilities
Edit system-wide Advanced Options
Start and stop all monitors
Create, edit, and delete report schedules
Create, edit, and delete alert groups
Configure the mail server
Administer users, contacts, and contact groups

Read Only on All Instances role

Users with this role can perform the following actions for all database instances:

View performance data and metrics
Run reports and view existing report groups
View existing alerts
View logs

Custom Privileges role

The Custom Privileges role specifies which privileges a user has, and which database instances these privileges apply to. Use this role to:

Prevent users from seeing data about certain database instances
Give users privileges to manage monitoring options, alerts, and reports without granting them full administrative privileges

When you assign this role to a user, you can grant any of the following privileges. Privileges can apply to all database instances or only selected instances.

Privilege	Actions allowed against selected database instances
View Data	View performance data and metrics Run reports and view existing report groups View logs
Manage Reports	Create, edit, and delete report groups
View Alerts	View existing alerts
Manage Alerts	Create, edit, and delete alerts View existing alert groups
Manage Monitoring	Create, edit, and delete blackout periods for monitoring Manage I/O configuration Update Advanced Options for a specific database instance Add annotations Exclude SQL statements from trend charts Start and stop individual monitors Users with Manage Monitoring permissions cannot see the charts at the top of the DPA homepage.