Work with roles

Administrators assign roles to users based on assignments and responsibilities. Set these roles in the application or map them from your identity provider if you have SSO integration enabled. If you start with a completely new Domino installation, the first user to log in is assigned the SysAdmin and Practitioner roles.

The available roles are:

SysAdmin - Administers instance with full administrative access.
CloudAdmin - Administers Domino Cloud instance with limited administrative access (Domino Cloud only).
ProjectManager - Manages organizations and project tags.
SupportStaff - Manages compute-related functionality.
Practitioner - Uses compute and file storage.
ReadOnlySupportStaff - View compute-related configuration.
Librarian - Manages project library.
LimitedAdmin - SysAdmin without access to projects and data.
LicenseReviewer - Views license-related content.
Lite User - A user with no role. See Lite User.
GovernanceAdmin - Manages policies with Domino Governance. See GovernanceAdmin role.

Tip	LimitedAdmin and LicenseReviewer roles do not grant any permissions to Projects or Data.

By default, all new users are assigned the Practitioner role.

Edit roles

When multiple roles are assigned to a user, permissions are additive. To grant users roles, you must be a SysAdmin or a CloudAdmin. SysAdmins can grant any role to any user. CloudAdmins can grant the CloudAdmin and Practitioner roles to CloudAdmins and Practitioners.

In the Admin application, click Users.
Search for the username to grant permissions.
Click Edit and select the roles.
Click Save.

Actions for specific roles

Project overview actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

Create Project

✓

View Project List

✓

Fork Project

✓

Archive Project

✓

File actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

List and View Files

✓

Edit Files

✓

Upload Files

✓

Workspace actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

Start Workspace

✓

Stop Workspace

✓

Open Workspace

✓

View Workspace History

✓

Archive Workspace

✓

Job actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

Start Job

✓

Stop Job

✓

(Public projects only)

View Job History

✓

Create Scheduled Job

✓

Edit Scheduled Job

✓

Delete Scheduled Job

✓

Project settings actions

Permission	Practitioner	SysAdmin	CloudAdmin	SupportStaff	ReadOnlySupportStaff	Librarian	Limited Admin	License Reviewer
View Project Settings	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Edit Project Settings	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

View Project Settings

✓

Edit Project Settings

✓

Experiment management actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

✓

View/list/search experiments and runs (including metadata and artifacts)

✓

Delete (archive) an experiment or experiment run

✓

Update an experiment or experiment run (includes logging artifacts, adding tags, etc.)

✓

Model registry actions

Permission	Results consumer	Contributor	Project owner	SysAdmin	CloudAdmin
Register a new model or a new version of a model		✓	✓	✓	✓
Archive a registered model version		Owning user only	✓	✓	✓
Update a registered model version		✓	✓	✓	✓
View / list / search registered models and their versions	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Deploy a model as a Domino Model API		✓	✓	✓	✓
Export a model as a Model API Image		✓	✓	✓	✓
Download model artifacts		✓	✓	✓	✓

Permission

Launcher user

Results consumer

Contributor

Project owner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

✓

Archive a registered model version

Owning user only

✓

Update a registered model version

✓

View / list / search registered models and their versions

✓

Deploy a model as a Domino Model API

✓

Export a model as a Model API Image

✓

Download model artifacts

✓

Model API actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

Create model API

✓

Be a model API "Owner"

✓

Be a model API "Editor"

✓

Be a model API "Viewer"

✓

Stop a model version

✓

View model settings

✓

Edit model settings

✓

Promote a model version to Prod

✓

App actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

Publish or Start App

✓

Stop App

✓

View App

✓

Launcher actions

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

View Launchers

✓

Create or Edit Launcher

✓

Delete Launcher

✓

Run Launcher

✓

Dataset actions

See Dataset permissions and Dataset Roles for more information.

Permission Practitioner SysAdmin CloudAdmin SupportStaff ReadOnlySupportStaff Librarian Limited Admin License Reviewer

Create Dataset

✓

Mount/Unmount Dataset

✓

Delete Dataset Snapshot

✓

List All Datasets on Global Data Page

✓

List All Datasets and Snapshots in Admin Application

✓

Permanently Delete Datasets and Snapshots from the Admin Application

✓

Cancel Delete Requests within the time set by com.cerebro.domino.dataset.graceTimeForDeletion. See Read-write datasets.

✓

Edit Any Dataset Permissions

✓

Environment actions

Note	As a reminder, your organization incurs costs when anyone creates or stores environments.

Permission	Practitioner	SysAdmin	CloudAdmin	SupportStaff	ReadOnlySupportStaff
List and View Environment	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Create Environment	✓	✓	✓
Edit Environment	✓	✓	✓	✓

Permission

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

List and View Environment

✓

Create Environment

✓

Edit Environment

✓

Administrator actions

Permission

Lite User

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

View Admin UI

✓

Edit Settings in Admin UI

✓

Edit Central Configuration

✓

Edit Users

✓

Edit Feature Flags

✓

Create Global Environments

✓

Edit Global Environments

✓

View Usage Reports

✓

Create Notifications

✓

Edit Hardware Tiers

✓

Run MongoDB Queries

Manage Executions

✓

View Datasets in Admin UI

✓

Manage Datasets in Admin UI

✓

Use Cost Monitoring

✓

Configure Cost Budgets and Alerts

✓

Note	CloudAdmins can only manage hardware tiers if the central config key `com.cerebro.domino.dominoCloud.cloudAdmin.canManageHwTiers` is set to `true`. MongoDB access is disabled in Domino Cloud.

Organization actions

Permission	Lite User	Practitioner	SysAdmin	CloudAdmin	SupportStaff	ReadOnlySupportStaff	Librarian	Limited Admin
Create Organizations	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓		✓
Organization Owner Can Add/Remove Members To/From the Organization	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Organization Owner Can Make Another User an Owner of the Organization	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Add/Remove Members To/From Any Organization			✓	✓
Can Make Another User an Owner of Any Organization			✓	✓
Select Hardware Tiers Available to Members of the Organization			✓	✓				✓

Permission

Lite User

Practitioner

SysAdmin

CloudAdmin

SupportStaff

ReadOnlySupportStaff

Librarian

Limited Admin

License Reviewer

Create Organizations

✓

Organization Owner Can Add/Remove Members To/From the Organization

✓

Organization Owner Can Make Another User an Owner of the Organization

✓

Add/Remove Members To/From Any Organization

✓

Can Make Another User an Owner of Any Organization

✓

Select Hardware Tiers Available to Members of the Organization

✓

Note	You cannot delete organizations after you create them.

More information about specific roles

Project Manager role

When Project Managers are members of organizations, their role grants them owner-level access to all projects that are owned by other members of the organizations. This allows the Project Manager to see these projects and their assets in the Projects Portfolio and Assets Portfolio.

The Project Manager might also have the ability to add users to these organizations, thereby gaining contributor access to those users' projects. For this reason, the Project Manager must be treated as a highly privileged role, similar to System Administrator.

CloudAdmin role

CloudAdmins are given most of the access SysAdmins have, but not all. CloudAdmins are only available on Domino Cloud.

CloudAdmins restrictions:

Manage central config
Manage feature flags
Manage email configuration
Manage search index
Manage API keys
Run MongoDB commands
View Kubernetes dashboard
Restart Nucleus

CloudAdmins can only manage users with the Practitioner or CloudAdmin roles. Users with any other roles cannot be managed by CloudAdmins. CloudAdmins can only assign the Practitioner or CloudAdmin roles.

Lite User role

A user with no roles is called a Lite User or, in some contexts, a Results Consumer. They have restricted feature access and may have a different licensing status.

Lite Users have permission to do the following:

View the project list.
View files in a project.
View Workspace history.
View Job history.
Be added as collaborators of model APIs.
View Apps.
View and run Launchers (if permitted in project settings).
List and view Environments.
View experiments.

Data Analyst role

The Data Analyst role is for users who have some technical background and coding experience in Python and R, but who do not need access to all the MLOps features of Domino. For more information, see Data Analyst role.

GovernanceAdmin role

The GovernanceAdmin role has permission to do the following:

View bundles.
View approvals.
Query audit events.
View policy overviews.
Manage policies evidence templates.

For more information, see Domino Governance policies.