Install Guide

Registering vCenter server by non-administrator user with required

privileges

You can register a vCenter server for the OMIVV appliance by using a non-administrator user with the required privileges. See step 5 to

step 9 of Registering OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter and importing license le topic. for information about registering a

vCenter server through a non-administrator user or as an administrator.

Assigning Dell privileges to existing role

About this task

You can edit an existing role to assign the Dell privileges.

NOTE: Ensure that you are logged in as a user with Administrator privileges.

Steps

1 Log in to the vSphere web client with administrative rights.

2 In the left pane, click Administration → Roles in the vSphere web client.

3 Select a vCenter server system from the Roles provider drop-down list.

4 Select the role from the Roles list, and click .

5 Click Privileges, expand Dell, and then select the following Dell privileges for the selected role and click OK:

• Dell.Conguration

• Dell.Deploy-Provisioning

• Dell.Inventory

• Dell.Monitoring

• Dell.Reporting

See Security roles and permissions in OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter User’s Guide available at Dell.com/support/

manuals for more information about the available OMIVV roles within vCenter.

The changes to permissions and roles take eect immediately. The user with necessary privileges can now perform the OpenManage

Integration for VMware vCenter operations.

NOTE

: For all vCenter operations, OMIVV uses the privileges of the registered user and not the privileges of the logged-in user.

NOTE: If specic pages of OMIVV are accessed with no Dell privileges assigned to the logged-in user, the 2000000 error is

displayed.

Registering OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter and

importing license le

Prerequisite

Ensure that your licenses are ready for download at Dell Digital Locker. If you have ordered more than one license, they might be shipped

separately at dierent times. You can check the status of other license items at Order Status. The license le is available as an .XML

format.

NOTE

: If you want to upload a custom certicate for your appliance, ensure that you upload the new certicate before vCenter

registration. If you upload the new custom certicate after vCenter registration, communication errors are displayed in the web

client. To x this issue, unregister, and re-register the appliance with vCenter.

Steps

1 From the vSphere web client, click Home > Hosts and Clusters, then in the left panel, locate OMIVV that you had deployed, and click

Power on the virtual machine.

Introduction