--- title: "About Admin Roles" canonical: "https://docs.infoblox.com/space/MAG8/911867933/About%20Admin%20Roles" format: markdown --- An admin role is a group of permissions that you can apply to one or more admin groups. Roles allow you to quickly and easily apply a suite of permissions to an admin group. You can define roles once and apply them to multiple admin groups. You can create roles based on the job functions in your organization. If you are creating a role that has similar permissions to an existing role, you can copy the role and then make the necessary modifications to the new role. Thus you do not have to create each new role from scratch. You can assign up to 21 roles to an admin group, and you can assign a role to more than one admin group. When you make a change to a role, the appliance automatically applies the change to that role in all admin groups to which the role is assigned. # > Macro (anchor) > Macro (anchor) Creating Admin Roles There are two ways to create an admin role. You can create a new role and define its permissions, or you can copy an existing role and redefine the configuration for the new role. To create a new role from scratch: 1. From the **Administration** tab, select the **Administrators** tab -> **Roles** tab, and then click the Add icon. 2. In the *Add* *Role* wizard, complete the following: - **Name:** Enter a name for the role. - **Comment:** Enter useful information about the role. For example, if you are creating a role for IT personnel, you can put the information here. - **Disable:** Select this to retain an inactivated profile for this admin role in the configuration. 3. Optionally, click **Next** to add extensible attributes to this role. For information, see [*About Extensible Attributes*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MAG8/pages/912293964/About+Extensible+Attributes)*.* 4. Click **Next** and select one of the following: - **Save** **&** **Add** **Permissions**: Save the entry and add permissions to the role. Multi-Grid Manager displays the **Permissions** tab with the newly created role selected. You can then add permissions to this role. For information, see [*About Administrative Permissions*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MAG8/pages/911867955/About+Administrative+Permissions)*.* - **Save** **&** **Close**: Save the entry and close the wizard. - **Save** **&** **Edit**: Save the entry and continue to edit. - **Save** **&** **New**: Save the entry and open a new wizard. To copy an existing role: 1. From the **Administration** tab, select the **Administrators** tab -> **Roles** tab -> *admin_role* checkbox, and then click **Clone** from the Toolbar. 2. The *Copy* *Role* editor provides the following tabs from which you can modify data for the new role: - *General*: Enter the name and information about the new role. You can also disable the role in this tab. - *Admin* *Groups*: Displays a list of admin groups that are currently using this role. You cannot modify the list. - *Extensible* *Attributes*: Add and delete extensible attributes that are associated with the admin role. You can also modify the values of the extensible attributes. For more information see, [*About Extensible Attributes*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MAG8/pages/912293964/About+Extensible+Attributes)*.* 3. Save the configuration. The appliance displays the new role in the **Roles** tab. After you create roles, you can do the following: - Define their permissions. For information and guidelines on defining permissions, see [*About Administrative Permissions*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MAG8/pages/911867955/About+Administrative+Permissions)*.* - Assign roles to admin groups, as described in [*About Admin Groups*](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MAG8/pages/911343829/About+Admin+Groups)*.*