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Cloud Instance Management Rights

I've got an account used by an external automation tool to mute alerts/unmanage nodes via API. I'd like to extend its use to stop/start cloud instances via API. I can use the account to manage/unmanage the cloud instances, but when trying to stop/start instances I receive the error "Access to Orion.Cloud.AWS.Instances.stopinstance verb denied". I can't find any documentation indicating what specific rights on the Orion account are needed.

My account (which is an admin) has no issue stopping/starting them in this manner, but I'd like to grant only the minimum rights to this or another account used for this purpose. I gave the account "Allow nodes to be rebooted" under SAM settings, but that didn't do the trick. Any ideas?

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chucksimalchik

Never mind. Allow Node Management Rights did the trick.

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chucksimalchik

Never mind. Allow Node Management Rights did the trick.

mesverrum

Good that you got it working, but i wonder if you are maybe building a questionable Rube Goldberg machine? Generally speaking I try to avoid having Tool A connect to Tool B to cause a change in Tool C when I could just have Tool A trigger the same change directly in Tool C.

Hopefully that makes sense, it just seems like you should be able to remove at least one dependency in this chain.

chucksimalchik

Very true. This isn't intended to be permanent but a proof of concept with existing processes while some corporate I's get dotted and T's get crossed. The end state will be A directly to C.