EFA RBAC Policy Enforcement

EFA implements an RBAC (Role-based Access Control) policy governing access to northbound REST APIs.

The RBAC policy is enforced at the northbound interface, immediately after validation of the access token. An error message is returned if an RBAC permissions check fails.

Security Troubleshooting

Use the following logs to troubleshoot authentication, authorization, or RBAC issues.

Table 1. Security log locations
Log source Filepath

EFA server

/var/log/efa/auth/auth-server.log

/var/log/efa/rbac/rbac-server.log

EFA TPVM

/apps/efa_logs/auth/auth-server.log

/apps/efa_logs/rbac/rbac-server.log

SLX device

/var/log/pam-oauth2.log
Use the following commands to see lists of commands that were run during a specified time, such as when an RBAC error occurred. This sort of information can help you identify potential causes.
  • efa auth execution show
  • efa rbac execution show
  • efa inventory execution show

RBAC and REST URI Matrix

The RBAC policy is expressed in a permissions matrix indexed by RBAC role and REST URI, in which each matrix element enumerates the permitted HTTP methods.

Table 2. RBAC and REST Matrix
Role A Role B Role C
REST URI 1 GET GET GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
REST URI 2 GET, POST GET, POST, PUT GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
REST URI 3 GET, POST GET, POST GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE

RBAC Roles

Roles can be populated into the upstream LDAP instance.
Note

Note

The SystemAdmin and NetworkOperator roles are applicable for VM mode of installation.
Table 3. Role definitions
Role Description
FabricAdmin
  • Registers devices to the fabric
  • Configures fabric parameters
  • Validates all devices in the fabric
  • Configures switches for IP fabric with overlay and without overlay
  • Creates tenants
  • Creates networks inside tenants, such as VRF, EPG, and PO
  • Performs fabric debug activities
  • Has privileges for OpenStack, Hyper-V, and vCenter operations
SecurityAdmin Performs user management, PKI, and key management operations
NetworkOperator
  • Has view-only privileges for fabric configurations, information for tenants and inventory, and all ecosystem information
  • Cannot make changes in the system
SystemDebugger
  • Has privileges to perform supportsave and system backup, and to view the running system configurations
  • Has privileges to perform fabric debug operations
  • Sets debug levels for services
  • Has privileges to collect execution logs from services
SystemAdmin Has complete privileges to all operations in the system
<Tenant>Admin

* Created dynamically per tenant

 Performs tenant administration within the assigned tenant, such as the following:
  • Adding networks to the tenant
  • Configuring network parameters
  • Configuring switches with tenant-specific information
Cannot perform actions for any other tenant

* Tenant Administrator roles are added dynamically to the system when a tenant is created. The name of the role is of the format <Tenant-name>Admin. For example, if a tenant with the name “RegionOne” is created, the role created for the Tenant Administrator is “RegionOneAdmin”.

Note

Note

You cannot create custom roles.

Role Permissions

Table 4. Role permissions for fabric manager
Allowed Privileges System Admin Fabric Admin Tenant Admin Network Operator Security Admin System Debugger
Create, clone, delete fabric in the system ✔ ✔
Register, unregister devices in fabric, configure IP fabric on the device ✔ ✔
Add, delete, and update location ✔ ✔
Show IP fabric physical, underlay, overlay topology, IP fabric configs and devices in IP fabric ✔ ✔ ✔
Debug fabric operations ✔ ✔ ✔
Inventory, asset service operations ✔ ✔
Run CLI access on the device ✔ ✔
Create, delete, update tenants ✔ ✔  
Create, delete EPG, PO, VRFs inside tenant ✔ ✔ ✔
Add, remove port, port channels to and from EPG ✔ ✔ ✔
Add, remove network policies to EPG ✔ ✔ ✔
Detach network from EPG ✔ ✔ ✔
Identify drift in device configuration ✔ ✔
Set tenant debug level ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Show OpenStack networks, PO, subnets, tenant, ports, router, router-interface ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Create, delete, clean up OpenStack networks ✔ ✔ ✔
Create, delete OpenStack subnets ✔ ✔ ✔
Create, delete OpenStack ports ✔ ✔ ✔
Create, delete OpenStack router ✔ ✔ ✔
Create, delete router interfaces ✔ ✔ ✔
Delete OpenStack asset (DebugDeleteOSSAsset) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
View vCenter details, events, ESXI details, physical links, virtual links, disconnected links, get server settings ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Register, delete, update vCenter ✔ ✔ ✔
Set vCenter debug level ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Update vCenter polling frequency, dead link clearing time ✔ ✔ ✔
View SCVMM server details, service settings, physical links, virtual links ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Register, delete, update SCVMM server ✔ ✔ ✔
Update SCVMM server polling frequency ✔ ✔ ✔
User management, assign roles to users, configure LDAP, configure TACACS+, view available roles in the system ✔ ✔ ✔
Notification service (add, delete subscribers) ✔ ✔
Execution log view ✔

✔

(No Auth and RBAC)

✔

(only Tenant)

✔

✔

(only Auth and RBAC)

✔
Support save collection ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Backup and restore operation ✔ ✔

(only backup)

 ✔
Install certificates ✔ ✔ ✔
Table 5. Role permissions for visibility manager
Allowed Privileges System Admin Network Operator
Add, delete, and update location ✔
User management, configure LDAP, configure TACACS+, authentication settings and assign roles ✔
Register, unregister NPB devices ✔
View inventory and configuration ✔ ✔
Create, delete, and update NPB policy and related configurations ✔
Port and port-channel operation on NPB devices ✔
Create, delete, and update configuration in Library ✔
Upgrade firmware ✔
Refresh and export configurations ✔
Packet capture ✔
Clear counter ✔
View statistics ✔ ✔
View syslog ✔
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