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5 Select Propagate to Children to apply the selected role to all of the child objects of the inventory objects
that this role can affect.
For example, if a role contains privileges to modify folders, selecting this option extends the privileges
to all the virtual machines in a folder. You might deselect this option to create a more complex
hierarchy of permissions. For example, deselect this option to override the permissions that are
propagated from the root of a certain node from the hierarchy tree, but without overriding the
permissions of the child objects of that node.
6 Click OK to assign the role and its associated privileges to the user or user group.
7 Repeat Step 2 through Step 6 to assign roles and privileges to the users or user groups on the other
Site Recovery Manager site.
You assigned a given Site Recovery Manager role to a user or user group. This user or user group has
privileges to perform the actions that the role defines on the objects on the Site Recovery Manager site that
you configured.
Example: Combining Site Recovery Manager Roles
You can assign only one role to a user or user group. If a user who is not a vCenter Server administrator
requires the privileges of more than one Site Recovery Manager role, you can create multiple user groups.
For example, a user might require the privileges to manage recovery plans and to run recovery plans.
1 Create two user groups.
2 Assign the SRM Recovery Plans Administrator role to one group.
3 Assign the SRM Recovery Administrator role to the other group.
4 Add the user to both user groups.
By being a member of groups that have both the SRM Recovery Plans Administrator and the SRM
Recovery Administrator roles, the user can manage recovery plans and run recoveries.
Site Recovery Manager Roles Reference
Site Recovery Manager includes a set of roles. Each role includes a set of privileges, which allow users with
those roles to complete different actions.
Roles can have overlapping sets of privileges and actions. For example, the Site Recovery Manager
Administrator role and the Site Recovery Manager Protection Groups Administrator have the Create
privilege for protection groups. With this privilege, the user can complete one aspect of the set of tasks that
make up the management of protection groups.
Assign roles to users on Site Recovery Manager objects consistently on both sites, so that protected and
recovery objects have identical permissions.
All users must have at least the System.Read privilege on the root folders of vCenter Server and the
Site Recovery Manager root nodes on both sites.
NOTE If you uninstall Site Recovery Manager Server, Site Recovery Manager removes the default
Site Recovery Manager roles but the Site Recovery Manager privileges remain. You can still see and assign
Site Recovery Manager privileges on other roles after uninstalling Site Recovery Manager. This is standard
vCenter Server behavior. Privileges are not removed when you unregister an extension from vCenter Server.
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