Specifications

Basic System Administration
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 Events–AlistofalltheeventsthatoccurintheVirtualCenterenvironment.Use
theNavigationoptiontodisplayalltheevents.Useanobject‐specificpanelto
displayonlytheeventsrelativetothatobject.
 Admin–Alistofenvironment‐levelconfigurationoptions.TheAdminoption
providesconfigurationaccesstoRoles,Sessions,Licenses,Diagnostics,and
SystemLogs.WhenconnectedtoanESXServerhost,onlytheRolesoption
appears.
 Maps–AvisualrepresentationofthestatusandstructureoftheVMware
Infrastructureenvironmentandtherelationshipsbetweenmanagedobjects.This
includeshosts,networks,virtualmachines,anddatastores.Thisisavailableonly
throughVirtualCenterServer.
VariousinformationlistsaregeneratedandtrackedbyyourVMwareInfrastructure
Clientactivity:
 Tasks–Theseactivitiesarescheduledorinitiatedmanually.Tasksgenerateevent
messagesthatindicateanyissuesassociatedwiththetask.
 Events–MessagesthatreportVMwareInfrastructureactivity.Eventmessagesare
predefinedintheproduct.
 Alarms–Specificnotificationsthatoccurinresponsetoselectedevents.Some
alarmsaredefinedbyproductdefault.Additionalalarmscanbecreatedand
appliedtoselectedinventoryobjectsorallinventoryobjects.
 Logs–Storedreferenceinformationrelatedtoselectedeventmessages.Logsare
predefinedintheproduct.Youcanconfigurewhetherselectedlogsaregenerated.
Access Privileges Components
EachuserlogsontoaVirtualCenterServerorahostthroughtheVIClient.Eachuser
isidentifiedtotheserverassomeonewhohasrightsandprivilegestoselectedobjects,
suchasdatacentersandvirtualmachines,withintheVMwareInfrastructure
environment.VirtualCenterServeritselfhasfullrightsandprivileges
onallhostsand
virtualmachineswithintheVMwareInfrastructureenvironment.Theserverpasseson
onlythoseactionsandrequestsfromauserthattheuserhaspermissiontoperform.
TheservergrantsaccesstoeachVMwareInfrastructureClientobject,datacenter,folder,
orvirtualmachine.Todothis,youassigna
roleandauser(orgroup)toeachobject.