Troubleshooting Amazon IoT SiteWise identity and access
Use the following information to help you diagnose and fix common issues that you might encounter when working with Amazon IoT SiteWise and IAM.
Topics
- I am not authorized to perform an action in Amazon IoT SiteWise
- I am not authorized to perform iam:PassRole
- I want to view my access keys
- I'm an administrator and want to allow others to access Amazon IoT SiteWise
- I want to allow people outside of my Amazon account to access my Amazon IoT SiteWise resources
I am not authorized to perform an action in Amazon IoT SiteWise
If the Amazon Web Services Management Console tells you that you're not authorized to perform an action, then you must contact your administrator for assistance. Your administrator is the person that provided you with your user name and password.
The following example error occurs when the mateojackson IAM user tries
to use the console to view details about an asset but does not have
iotsitewise:DescribeAsset permissions.
User: arn:aws-cn:iam::123456789012:user/mateojackson is not authorized to perform: iotsitewise:DescribeAsset on resource: a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-22222EXAMPLE
In this case, Mateo asks his administrator to update his policies to allow him to access
the asset resource with ID a1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-22222EXAMPLE using the
iotsitewise:DescribeAsset action.
I am not authorized to perform iam:PassRole
If you receive an error that you're not authorized to perform the iam:PassRole action, then you must contact your administrator for
assistance. Your administrator is the person that provided you with your user name and password. Ask that person to update your policies to allow
you to pass a role to Amazon IoT SiteWise.
Some Amazon Web Services allow you to pass an existing role to that service, instead of creating a new service role or service-linked role. To do this, you must have permissions to pass the role to the service.
The following example error occurs when an IAM user named marymajor tries to use the console to perform an action in
Amazon IoT SiteWise. However, the action requires the service to have permissions granted by a service role. Mary does not have permissions to pass the
role to the service.
User: arn:aws-cn:iam::123456789012:user/marymajoris not authorized to perform: iam:PassRole
In this case, Mary asks her administrator to update her policies to allow her to perform the iam:PassRole action.
I want to view my access keys
After you create your IAM user access keys, you can view your access key ID at any time. However, you can't view your secret access key again. If you lose your secret key, you must create a new access key pair.
Access keys consist of two parts: an access key ID (for example, AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE) and a secret access key (for example,
wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY). Like a user name and password, you must use both the access key ID and secret access key
together to authenticate your requests. Manage your access keys as securely as you do your user name and password.
Do not provide your access keys to a third party, even to help find your canonical user ID
When you create an access key pair, you are prompted to save the access key ID and secret access key in a secure location. The secret access key is available only at the time you create it. If you lose your secret access key, you must add new access keys to your IAM user. You can have a maximum of two access keys. If you already have two, you must delete one key pair before creating a new one. To view instructions, see Managing access keys in the IAM User Guide.
I'm an administrator and want to allow others to access Amazon IoT SiteWise
To allow others to access Amazon IoT SiteWise, you must create an IAM entity (user or role) for the person or application that needs access. They will use the credentials for that entity to access Amazon. You must then attach a policy to the entity that grants them the correct permissions in Amazon IoT SiteWise.
To get started right away, see Creating your first IAM delegated user and group in the IAM User Guide.
I want to allow people outside of my Amazon account to access my Amazon IoT SiteWise resources
You can create a role that users in other accounts or people outside of your organization can use to access your resources. You can specify who is trusted to assume the role. For services that support resource-based policies or access control lists (ACLs), you can use those policies to grant people access to your resources.
To learn more, consult the following:
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To learn whether Amazon IoT SiteWise supports these features, see How Amazon IoT SiteWise works with IAM.
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To learn how to provide access to your resources across Amazon Web Services accounts that you own, see Providing access to an IAM user in another Amazon Web Services account that you own in the IAM User Guide.
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To learn how to provide access to your resources to third-party Amazon Web Services accounts, see Providing access to Amazon Web Services accounts owned by third parties in the IAM User Guide.
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To learn how to provide access through identity federation, see Providing access to externally authenticated users (identity federation) in the IAM User Guide.
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To learn the difference between using roles and resource-based policies for cross-account access, see How IAM roles differ from resource-based policies in the IAM User Guide.