Managing Cisco DNA Spaces Users
Cisco DNA Spaces provides its users different rights and privileges based on the role they perform.
Inviting a Cisco DNA Spaces User
When a Cisco DNA Spaces account is created, a Dashboard Admin Role user is created for the account with the e-mail ID provided. This Dashboard Admin can invite other users for Cisco DNA Spaces.
Cisco DNA Spaces provides only one default user role, Dashboard Admin Role. By default, Dashboard Admin Role will have read and write access rights only to the role types, DNASpaces (including menu items in the left pane, of the dashboard, and the apps Behavior Metrics, OpenRoaming, Location Analytics, Engagements, and Location Personas), CaptivePortals, and OperationsInsights.
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Cisco DNA Spaces allows you to define user roles with different access rights to different apps. For example, you can create a user role with read and write permisision in Captive Portals app, and read only permission in Operational Insights app.
You can include the following role types (apps) in a user role, if that particular service is enabled for your account.
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DNASpaces: This role type provides access to all the menu items in the left pane of the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard such as Location Hierarchy, Admin Management, Monitoring and Support, Setup, and so on. In addition, this role type provides access to the apps such as Behavior Metrics, OpenRoaming, Location Analytics, Engagements, and Location Personas.
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CaptivePortal: This role type provides access rights to the Captive Portals app.
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OperationalInsights: This role type provides access rights to the Operational Insights app.
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BeconManager: This role type provides access rights to the BLE Manager app.
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MobileSDK: This role type provides access rights to the Location SDK app.
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LocationThis role type provides access rights to the Detect and Locate app.
To invite a Cisco DNA Spaces user, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, choose Admin Management. |
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Click Invite Admin. |
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In the Invite Admin window, enter the following details: |
Creating a User Role
To create a Cisco DNA Spaces user role, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, click Admin Management. |
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Click the Roles tab, and click Create Role.
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In the Create New Role window, enter the following details: The user role will now be available in the Role Name drop-down list of the Invite Admin window. |
Editing Cisco DNA Spaces User
A Dashboard Admin user with read and write permission can change the user role of a user. For example, a Dashboard Admin Read can be promoted to a Dashboard Admin Read and Write user.
To edit the user privileges of a Cisco DNA Spaces user, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, choose Admin Management. The Admin page appears with the list of e-mail IDs of the Cisco DNA Spaces users. |
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Click the Edit icon at the far right of the e-mail ID of the user whom you want to edit. The Invite Admin window appears. |
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From the Role Name drop-down list, choose the type of access that you want to provide to the user. The default user roles, and the user roles defined earlier appears in the drop-down list for selection. If the required user role is not there, you can define a user role using Create New Role. For more information on creating a new user role, see the "Creating a User Role" section. |
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Click Update. |
Deleting a Cisco DNA Spaces User
If a user no more needs access to the Cisco DNA Spaces, we recommend that such users to be deleted from the Cisco DNA Spaces user list. A Dashboard Admin Role user can delete other users.
To delete an existing Cisco DNA Spaces user, perform the following steps:
Procedure
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In the Cisco DNA Spaces dashboard, choose Admin Management. The Admins page appears with the list of the Cisco DNA Spaces users. |
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Click the Delete icon at the far right of the e-mail ID of the user whom you want to delete. If you want to delete multiple users, select the check box for the corresponding e-mail IDs, and click Delete Admins that appears on top right of the window. |
God Admin
Cisco DNA Spaces provides a God Admin user role to access the God Admin dashboard, which is available only for Cisco Internal users. Currently, the number of God Admin accounts possible at a time is restricted. The Team option does not support to create God Admin user roles. It is created internally by Cisco DNA Spaces team. The God Admin dashboard provides a report that is generated based on the data for all the Cisco DNA Spaces customers, and helps Cisco to analyze the overall performance of Cisco DNA Spaces.
The data displayed in the God Admin dashboard includes:
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Total No of Locations
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Total Number of APs
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Total number of location updates.
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Total sq.ft area covered by Cisco DNA Spaces.
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Total number of Visits and Visitors.
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Visitors by location in Map View and List View.
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Top 5 Locations.
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Visit Duration for various visit ranges.
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Visit Counts for various Visit ranges.
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Graph for Hourly Visits.
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Count of Mobile Numbers, Email IDs, Names captured along with the number of visitors for which gender is captured.
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Count of Opt In users.