Permissions

Find what each permission allows, area by area, as the role editor in Settings › Security shows it.

How permissions are named

View opens a page. Without it, the page and its links are hidden.
Manage lets you add, change and delete in one area. Also give the View permission of the page.
An action has its own permission, for example Kill sessions or Run Archiving.

All users see the Databases page. To make a role, see Build a role.

Permission	What it allows
Manage databases	Add, edit and remove databases, their OS log settings and their monitoring switches. With Manage Settings, also Import & Export.

Permission	What it allows
View Security	Open Settings › Security, read only.
View Audit Trail	Open the Audit Trail.
Manage users	Add, edit and delete users. Map LDAP groups and check a user in LDAP. Sign out all users.
Manage roles	Add, edit and delete roles.
Manage credentials	Add, edit and delete credentials. Put their passwords in an export.
Reveal passwords	Show a stored password for 30 seconds. Manage the key and the recovery code in Passwords.
Manage groups, Manage environments, Manage owners	Add, edit and delete groups, environments or owners.

Permission	What it allows
View Incidents	Open Incidents, and see the alert marks of a database.
View alerts on Databases	See Issues and the alert dialog on the Databases page.
Manage alerts	Add, edit and delete alerts in the Alert Catalog.
Clear alerts	Clear an active alert on Incidents.
View Policies, Manage Policies	Open Policies, and change policies and their databases.
View Radar	Open Radar on Incidents, and act on its findings.
Manage Radar	Change the Radar Engine settings.

Permission	What it allows
View Reports	Open and run Reports.
Manage reports	Add, edit and delete reports, their categories and their mails.
View Overview	Open the Overview.

Permission	What it allows
View Dashboard, View Live Activity, View Metrics, View Memory, View HealthCheck, View Sizing, View Services, View Summary, View Multi-Activity, View License	Open the page with that name.
View Insights	Open Insights. With Scops AI on, also the Ask field, AI Analysis and Explain on the Databases page.
View Exadata	Open Exadata, on an Exadata database.
View Objects	Open Objects. The page shows your source code.
Manage License	Mark the Oracle products that you have a license for.

Permission	What it allows
Kill sessions	Kill a session on a database.
Trace sessions	Start a trace on a session from Live Activity.
Run SQL Tuning Advisor	Run the SQL Tuning Advisor. The database needs the Diagnostics and Tuning Pack switch.
Manage SQL plans	Set a plan, and set up the automatic plan fix. The database needs the Diagnostics and Tuning Pack switch.
Run scripts	Open Multi-SQL and run scripts.
Manage datafiles	Apply a change from Scops AI that adds or resizes a datafile.

Permission	What it allows
View Statistics, View Compression, View Archiving	Open Statistics, Compression or Archiving.
Manage Statistics	Change statistics profiles and databases. Empty the queue.
Manage Compression	Change the databases, tables and profiles of Compression.
Manage Archiving	Change archiving pairs and tables, and create objects on an archive database.
Run Statistics, Run Compression, Run Archiving	Start and stop the add-on. Gather statistics, or re-sync archiving.

Permission	What it allows
Use AI	Ask Scops AI and use its answers on the pages.
View AI Trace, View AI Knowledge	Open AI Trace or AI Knowledge in Settings.
Manage AI settings	Change Settings › AI. It also needs Manage Settings.

When Scops AI is off for all users, the AI pages and the Ask field are hidden.

Permission	What it allows
Manage Settings	Open Settings and change most sections. See Every section.
Manage edition key	Activate or remove the license key in Settings › About.
View Docs	Open Docs and the help buttons on the pages.

After an upgrade, every role has View Docs. On a new installation, only ADMIN has it, as with every permission.

Updated November 2, 2026