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List of permissions

Permission types

When creating or editing a permission set in More > Permission Sets > New / Edit > Functionality there is a list of all available permissions. ESET PROTECT Web Console permissions are divided into categories; for example, Groups & Computers, Policies, Client Tasks, Reports, Notifications and so on. A given permissions set can allow for Read, Use or Write access. In general:

Read permissions are good for auditing users. They can view data but cannot make changes.

Use permissions allow users to use objects, run tasks, but not modify or delete.

Write permissions allow users to either modify respective objects and/or duplicate them.

Certain types of permissions (listed below) control a process, not an object. That is why they work on a global level, so it does not matter which static group is the permission applied on, it will work regardless. If the process is allowed to a user he can use it only over objects for which he has sufficient permissions. For example, the Export report to file permission enables the exporting functionality, however data contained in the report are determined by other permissions.


example

Read our Knowledgebase article with example tasks and permission sets that user needs to successfully perform the tasks.


note

Functionalities to which the current user does not have access rights are unavailable (grayed out).

Users can be assigned permissions for the following processes:

Agent Deployment

Reports and Dashboard (only the functionality of the Dashboard will be available, the usable report templates are still dependent on accessible static groups)

Send Email

Export report to file

AD Scanner Access Token

Comprehensive reports

ESET MDR reports

 

Functionality Privileges

Incident Management

Read—Incident Management

Write—Incident Management, Create incident & edit incident properties, Add & remove objects in incidents, Change status & assignee for incidents

 


important

The permissions you configure are applied to the parent company of the static group you selected in the Static Groups step.

Granted Functionality

Groups & Computers

Read - List computers, groups and computers within a group.

Use - Use a computer/group as a target for a policy or task.

Write - Create, modify and remove computers. This also includes renaming a computer or a group.

 

Permission Sets

Read - Read the list of permission sets and the list of access rights within them.

Use - Assign/remove existing permission sets for users.

Write - Create, modify and remove permission sets.

 


important

When assigning (or un-assigning) a permission set to a user, Write permission is required for Mapped accounts.

 

Mapped accounts

Read - List mapped accounts.

Write - Allows granting/revoking of permission sets.

 

Stored Installers

Read - List stored installers.

Use - Export stored installer.

Write - Create/modify/remove stored installers.

 

Server Tasks & Triggers

Read - Read the list of tasks and their settings (except of sensitive fields like passwords).

Use - Execute an existing task with Run Now (as the user currently logged to the Web Console).

Write - Create, modify and remove server tasks.

Categories can be expanded by clicking the sign icon_expand and single or multiple types of server tasks can be selected.

 

Client Tasks

Read - Read the list of tasks and their settings (except of sensitive fields like passwords).

Use - Schedule execution of existing Client Tasks or cancel their execution. Note that for assignment of tasks (or assignment cancellation) to targets (computers or groups) additional Use access is required for the affected targets.

Write - Create, modify or remove existing Client Tasks. Note that for assignment of tasks (or assignment cancellation) to targets (computers or groups) additional Use access is required for the affected target objects.

Categories can be expanded by clicking the sign icon_expand and single or multiple types of Client Tasks can be selected.

 

Dynamic Groups Templates

Read - Read the list of Dynamic Groups templates.

Use - Use existing templates for dynamic groups.

Write - Create, modify and remove Dynamic Group templates.

 

Encryption recovery

Read

Use - Manage the encryption recovery process.

 

Reports and Dashboard

Read - List report templates and their categories. Generate reports based on report templates. Read your own dashboards based on default dashboards.

Use - Modify your own dashboards with available report templates.

Write - Create, modify, remove existing report templates and their categories. Modify default dashboards.

 

Policies

Read - Read the list of policies and configuration within them.

Use - Assign existing policies to targets (or cancel their assignment). Note, that for the affected targets additional Use access is necessary.

Write - Create, modify and remove policies.

 

Send Email

Use - Send emails. (Useful for Notifications and Generate Report server tasks.)

 

Licenses

Read - Read the list of licenses and their usage statistics.

Use - Use the license for activation.

Write - Add and remove licenses. (The user must have home group set to All. By default only the Administrator can do it.)

 

Notifications

Read - Read the list of notifications and their settings.

Use - Assign tags.

Write - Create, modify, remove notifications.

 

Settings

Write - Modify ESET PROTECT Settings.

 

Audit log

Read - View Audit log and read the Audit log report.

 

AD Scanner Access Token

Read

Write - Required for AD synchronization.

 

Comprehensive reports

Use - Generate the MDR Report Template.

 

ESET MDR reports

Use - Required for MDR Report Archive.

Write - Generate the ESET MDR reports.

 

Granted ESET Inspect Functionality

This is a list of individual ESET Inspect functionalities that a user will have access to. For more details, see the ESET Inspect User Guide. A Web Console user requires Read permission or higher for Access to ESET Inspect.