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Granular permissions to Mobility Conductor/Controllers

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  • 1.  Granular permissions to Mobility Conductor/Controllers

    Posted Feb 27, 2024 04:02 PM

    Hello,

    With Mobility Conductor/Controllers running 8.10.0.9, and Clearpass 6.11.7 for TACACS, we are granting read-only permission for our PC technicians and helpdesk staff for troubleshooting WiFi connectivity on the controllers.

    I would like to make it possible for those users to remove clients from the denylist/blacklist, without giving them full administrative rights. Is this possible to give granular access for specific commands?

    If not - would there be a creative way to to this with an API on a standalone web page, or something along those lines?



  • 2.  RE: Granular permissions to Mobility Conductor/Controllers
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    Posted Feb 27, 2024 04:29 PM

    When using Clearpass with TACACS there is an "aruba:common" dictionary attribute called "Aruba-Admin-Role"

    Those roles are pre-configured on the Controllers [i.e. root, read-only, guest-provisioning, etc]

    The specific value that would likely fit your scenario would be: "network-operations"

    You would need to configure that TACACS VSA as a part of your Enforcement Profile that is triggered for those helpdesk users. 



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  • 3.  RE: Granular permissions to Mobility Conductor/Controllers

    Posted Feb 27, 2024 05:03 PM

    Zak, that did exactly what I needed, thank you.

    I found a list of commands included in "network-operations" here. This is for 8.6 I did not find an equivalent document for 8.10 but this seems to still apply:
    https://www.arubanetworks.com/techdocs/ArubaOS_86_Web_Help/Content/arubaos-solutions/behavior-defaults/defa-mana-user-role.htm 

    If there was not a role that fit what we needed, is it possible to create custom roles that can run more specific commands?


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