Question
How can I enable access to Resource Manager or assign specific permissions to them so certain users and roles can or cannot access them?
When a User that belongs to a Security Group that has not permissions to load Resource Manager, the following message will be displayed:
"Permission to view this resource is denied"
or if the User doesn't have permission to see some of the Resource Manager menus, like "Summaries" menu,
entries like this one may be logged in the NS logs:
Page '/Altiris/PatchManagementCore/Resources/SoftwareUpdateSummaryMain.aspx' with GUID 'b968001b-6785-4337-9797-142d8d91f1b7' hasn't permission for read. More likely parent folder '1623fca1-2c3a-4c5f-b6e0-e631956758b5' hasn't permission for read.
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Date: 12/22/2020 12:19:37 PM, Tick Count: 2583543546 (29.21:39:03.5460000), Size: 535 B
Process: w3wp (21564), Thread ID: 581, Module: Altiris.PatchManagementCore.dll
Priority: 1, Source: Altiris.PatchManagementCore.PatchManagementPage.PageCheckPermission
ITMS 8.x
Answer
The menus on Resource Manager are not as the ones on SMP Console—there is not a specific switch that allows or blocks access to them in case that the Security role should not have access to them.
Resource Manager has multiple components that are hidden by default. In order to give "Read" permissions to them:
The menus on Resource Manager are based on what Data Classes, Resource Types, Reports, Policies, and Tasks that Role is able to see. You will need to give "Read" permissions to the following portions as well:
*Read Resource Data
*Read Resource Associations
*Read Resource Data
*Read Resource Associations