Chapter 1. Overview of Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux tasks
Tasks is part of the Automation Toolkit for Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Tasks offer predefined playbooks that help you maintain the health of your infrastructure by simplifying and solving complex problems using automated tasks. Tasks solve specific problems and are typically executed one time on your systems to accomplish things such as, detecting a high-profile vulnerability on your systems or preparing systems for a major upgrade. You can find tasks in Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console > Red Hat Insights > RHEL > Automation Toolkit > Tasks.
Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux anticipates your need to solve problems and get things done in your infrastructure, and continuously adds specific tasks to the Automation Toolkit. Tasks include the following:
- RHEL pre-upgrade analysis utility task
- Pre-conversion analysis utility task
- Convert to RHEL from CentOS Linux 7
Some important information you will need to get started with executing a task are:
- User Access considerations. Find out what role or level of user access you need to complete tasks.
- Registering and connecting hosts to Insights. Using tasks requires you to register and connect systems to Insights.
- Executing Tasks using Red Hat Insights. Understand how to find and execute tasks.
System requirements to execute different tasks might vary.
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.
All users on your account have access to most of the data in Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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.
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 Insights Tasks users
The following role enables enhanced access to remediations features in Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
- Tasks administrator. The Tasks administrator role permits access to all Tasks capabilities to remotely execute Tasks on Insights-connected systems.
All members of the Default Admin Access group can also execute Tasks.
A Tasks viewer role does not exist.
