Available user role capabilities

Capabilities are sets of permissions that are tied to user roles that are defined in the IBM® QRadar® Admin tab.

The following table lists the capabilities that are supported by the QRadar GUI Application Framework. Use the values in the Capability column to define the user privileges for your app in the required_capabilities field of the object type block in your application’s manifest.json file.

The following table describes supported user role capabilities.

Table 1. Supported user role capabilities
Capability Description
ADMIN System administrator. Grants permission to access all areas of the user interface. Users who have this access cannot edit other administrator accounts.
VIEWADMIN Remote networks and services configuration. Grants permission to configure remote networks and services on the Admin tab.
SEM Offense management
SEM.VIEWRULES View custom rules
SEM.RULECREATION Maintain custom rules
SEM.ASSIGNOFFENSE Assign offenses to users
SEM.MANAGECLOSINGREASONS Close offenses, manage offense closing reasons
EventViewer Event viewer
EventViewer.VIEWRULES View custom rules
EventViewer.RULECREATION Maintain custom rules
EventViewer.CUSTOMARIELPROPERTY User-defined event properties
EventViewer.MANAGETIMESERIES Manage time series
ASSETS Asset management
ASSETS.VADATA View VA data
ASSETS.VASCAN Perform VA scans
ASSETS.SERVERDISCOVERY Server discovery
ASSETS.REMOVEVULNS Remove vulnerabilities
SURVEILLANCE Network Surveillance
SURVEILLANCE.VIEWRULES View custom rules
SURVEILLANCE.DATAMINECONTENT View flow content
SURVEILLANCE.CUSTOMFLOWPROPERTY User-defined flow properties
SURVEILLANCE.MANAGETIMESERIES Manage time series
SURVEILLANCE.RULECREATION Maintain custom rules
REPORTING Reporting
REPORTING.MAINTAINTEMPLATES Maintain templates
REPORTING.DISTRIBUTE Distribute reports via email
FORENSICS Incident Forensics
FORENSICS.CASECREATION Create cases in Incident Forensics
QRM QRM permission
QVM QVM permissions
QVM.ASSIGNASSETOWNER Assign asset owner
QVM.VULNERABILITY Assign vulnerability permissions
QVM.EXCEPTION Exception vulnerability permissions

For more information about capabilities and user roles in QRadar, see the IBM QRadar Administration Guide.