Change Control Management Overview
Change control management enables you to authorize and track change requests related to tunnels (additions, deletions, and modifications).
The lifecycle of a change request involves the following tasks:
- Submit a request
- Approve or reject the request
- Deploy the request, if approved
- Archive the request, if rejected, approved, or activated
For more details, see Change Request Workflow.
You can monitor the status of change requests from the Change Control Management page (Network > Change Control Management).
Permissions in the Change Control Management System
What you can do within the change control management system depends on your assigned user role. Each user role has specific permissions associated with it, enabling users with that role to perform various tasks. You can assign the permissions for each user role from the Roles page (Administration > User Management > Roles).
Table 1 explains the permissions in detail.
Permission | Description |
---|---|
Create | You can create, modify, and delete change
requests,
and
then
submit
the
change requests to the change control management system. First, you must access the relevant page on the GUI to perform the required task. After you complete the task, a change request is automatically created for the task. |
Approve | You can approve or reject change requests
that are
created by anyone, including those
that you
created. Best Practice:
Monitor the Change Control Management page regularly and advance change requests promptly to keep the requests moving through the change control management system. |
Auto Approve | You can create change requests that are automatically
approved and
deployed.
The
Auto-approve permission
option
also applies to change requests
that are
made by using REST APIs, thus enabling automated northbound
integration with third-party systems or
scripts. Note:
|
Deploy | You can deploy approved change requests
that are
created by anyone, including those
that you
created. Best Practice:
Monitor the Change Control Management page regularly and advance change requests promptly to keep the requests moving through the change control management system. |
If you have none of these permissions | You can only view the status of the change requests. |