Who this is for

These docs cover two audiences:

• Solo on Windows — people installing the free desktop app. Start at Solo on Windows.
• Solo on Linux — people installing the free AppImage. Start at Solo on Linux.
• Customer IT administrators operating the on-premise appliance — the rest of this site.

The appliance pages assume you can:

• Reach the Operator Console in a browser
• Interpret HTTP status codes and admin API responses
• Coordinate with Residion for tasks that are not self-serve

They are not written for Residion engineers. Internal jargon, unverified roadmaps, and product-repo paths are omitted on purpose.

Roles you will encounter

Role	What it can do in the Operator Console
it_admin / app_owner	Mutating actions (create keys, run ingestion, change routing, set budgets)
auditor	Read-only. Any mutation returns 403 (RES-ADMIN-403).

If buttons appear to do nothing when you are signed in as auditor, that is expected server-side enforcement — not a broken UI. See Sign in and roles.