Administration

Table 6-6. Predefined Roles in Horizon Administrator (continued)
Role User Capabilities
Applies to an
Access Group
Help Desk Administrators Perform desktop and application actions such as shutdown, reset,
restart, and perform remote assistance actions such as end
processes for a user's desktop or application. An administrator
must have permissions on the root access group to access
Horizon Help Desk Tool.
n Read-only access to Horizon Help Desk Tool.
n Manage global sessions.
n Can log in to Horizon Administrator.
n Perform all machine and session-related commands.
n Manage remote processes and applications.
n Remote assistance to the virtual desktop or published
desktop.
No
Help Desk Administrators
(Read Only)
View user and session information, and drill down on session
details. An administrator must have permissions on the root
access group to access Horizon Help Desk Tool.
n Read-only access to Horizon Help Desk Tool.
n Can log in to Horizon Administrator.
No
Inventory Administrators n Perform all machine, session, and pool-related operations.
n Manage persistent disks.
n Resync, Refresh, and Rebalance linked-clone pools and
change the default pool image.
When administrators have this role on an access group, they can
only perform these operations on the inventory objects in that
access group.
Yes
Inventory Administrators
(Read only)
View, but not modify, inventory objects.
When administrators have this role on an access group, they can
only view the inventory objects in that access group.
Yes
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