By allowing you to associate roles with applet and Web Start dashboards, the dashboard authorization facility gives you the ability to control which users can access which dashboards.

You associate a role with a dashboard when you deploy it, by specifying a value for the Security Role field of the dashboard deployment form. If you don’t specify a role in the Security Role field, the predefined role apama_customer is associated with the dashboard. In addition, the apama_admin role is automatically associated with every deployed dashboard.

A user who has logged into the Dashboard Directory Web site can access a given Web-deployed dashboard if and only if one of the dashboard’s roles is among the user’s roles. If the user’s roles include none of the dashboard roles, the user will not see the dashboard in the Dashboard Directory.

For local dashboard deployments, you can restrict dashboard access by doing one of the following: