Organization & Access

Organizations

Organizations are the top-level container in Scanopy. Every user belongs to exactly one organization, and all networks, hosts, and services exist within that organization.

Organizations are automatically created during registration and cannot be manually created or transferred.

Roles

Role	Can Do
Owner	Everything, including organization settings and inviting Admins
Admin	Everything Members can do, plus invite/remove Members, manage tags
Member	Create/edit networks, hosts, services; run discoveries; manage daemons; invite Visualizers
Visualizer	View topology diagrams only

Invite users via Manage > Users — generate an invite link and share it.

Networks

Networks are the primary organizational unit. Each network represents a distinct environment with its own hosts, services, and topology.

Common patterns:

• Separate networks for production vs. development
• One network per physical location
• Distinct networks for different security zones

API Keys

Each daemon requires its own API key. Create keys via Manage > API Keys or during daemon setup. Use one key per daemon — don’t share keys between daemons.

Tags

Tags provide organization-wide labels for categorizing and filtering entities. Apply tags to hosts, services, subnets, networks, groups, and daemons.

What Tags Are For

• Environment classification: production, staging, development
• Criticality levels: critical, high, medium, low
• Ownership tracking: team-a, team-b, contractor
• Lifecycle status: deprecated, migrating, new
• Compliance: pci-scope, hipaa, gdpr, internal-only

Tag Scope

Tags are defined at the organization level:

• The same tag can be applied across all networks
• Tag definitions are shared by all users
• Deleting a tag removes it from all entities

Example Tag Schemes

By environment and criticality:

production + critical    → Core infrastructure
production + standard    → Supporting services
staging + low-priority   → Test environments

By team ownership:

platform-team     → Infrastructure, databases, networking
frontend-team     → Web servers, CDN, static assets
data-team         → Analytics, ETL, data warehouses

For compliance audits:

pci-scope         → Systems handling payment data
hipaa             → Healthcare data systems
gdpr              → EU user data processing
internal-only     → No external exposure allowed

Manage tags via Manage > Tags. You can also create tags inline while editing any entity.