Manage Gateway Grants

Gateway grants allow you to issue fine-grained permissions to users or groups for specific gateways.

Topics

• Understand Gateway Grants

• Issue Gateway Grants

Understand Gateway Grants

Gateway grants are issued per gateway.

Users issued grants for a specific gateway have the privileges to perform the associated actions on that gateway.

Grant Name	Description	Can be Issued To	Associated Actions
Manage Gateway	People issued this grant are allowed to manage API deployments to this gateway and manage the gateway itself.	Gateway Managers	GatewayManage GatewayViewAllDetails GatewayDeploy GatewayRequestDeploy GatewayApproveDeployRequest GatewayGrantManageGateway GatewayGrantViewGateway GatewayGrantDeployAPI GatewayGrantRequestDeployAPI
View all details	People issued this grant are allowed to view all information about this gateway	Gateway Managers, API Managers, Plan Managers	GatewayViewAllDetails
Deploy to Gateway	People issued this grant are allowed to deploy or undeploy APIs to this gateway.	Gateway Managers, API Managers	GatewayDeploy GatewayRequestDeploy
Request Deployment to Gateway	People issued this grant are allowed to request API deployments to this gateway. Requests must be approved by a Gateway Manager	API Managers	GatewayRequestDeploy
Entitle Gateway In Plan	People issued this grant are allowed to entitle this gateway to a plan.	Plan Manager	GatewayEntitle
Node Service Account	Gateway Runtime service accounts are issued this grant to allow them to download configuration and upload statistics.	GatewayRuntime	GatewayRetrieveConfiguration GatewayUploadStatistics

Issue Gateway Grants

Issue gateway grants to users or groups to determine what actions assignees can perform with that gateway. Grants are issued per gateway; repeat this task for each gateway you want to issue grants for.

Gateway Managers must be issued the Manage Gateway grant to a gateway to issue grants for it.

1. From the Gateways List page, click the name of the gateway for which you want to manage grants.
2. Click the (Grants) tab.
3. Click the tab that corresponds to the grant you want to issue to users or groups:
   • Manage Gateway: Gateway Manager users issued this grant are allowed to manage API deployments to this gateway and manage the gateway itself.
   • View All Details: API ,Gateway, an Plan Manager users issued this grant are allowed to view all information about this gateway.
   • Deploy to Gateway: API and Gateway Manager users issued this grant are allowed to deploy or undeploy APIs to this gateway.
   • Request Deployment to Gateway: API Manager users issued this grant are allowed to request API deployments to this gateway. Requests must be approved by a Gateway Manager.
   • Entitle Gateway in Plan: Users issued this grant are allowed to entitle this gateway to a plan.
   • Node Service Account: Gateway Runtime service accounts are issued this grant to allow them to download configuration and upload statistics.
4. Click Add Grantee.
   The Add Grantee dialog appears.
5. From the Add Grantee dialog, select the user(s) or group(s) to which you want to issue the grant. You can select multiple users and groups.

   You cannot select users or groups that already have this grant; they are greyed out in the Add Grantee dialog.

6. Click Add.