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Table Of Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Contents
- Foundations and Concepts
- Using Scenarios
- Using the Goal Navigator
- Introducing vRealize Automation
- Tenancy and User Roles
- Service Catalog
- Infrastructure as a Service
- XaaS Blueprints and Resource Actions
- Common Components
- Life Cycle Extensibility
- vRealize Automation Extensibility Options
- Leveraging Existing and Future Infrastructure
- Configuring Business-Relevant Services
- Extending vRealize Automation with Event-Based Workflows
- Integrating with Third-Party Management Systems
- Adding New IT Services and Creating New Actions
- Calling vRealize Automation Services from External Applications
- Distributed Execution
Table 5. Tenant Roles and Responsibilities
Role Responsibilities How Assigned
Tenant administrator
n
Customize tenant branding.
n
Manage tenant identity stores.
n
Manage user and group roles.
n
Create custom groups.
n
Manage notification providers.
n
Enable notification scenarios for
tenant users.
n
Configure vRealize Orchestrator
servers, plug-ins and workflows for
XaaS.
n
Create and manage catalog
services.
n
Manage catalog items.
n
Manage actions.
n
Create and manage entitlements.
n
Create and manage approval
policies.
n
Monitor tenant machines and send
reclamation requests.
The system administrator designates a
tenant administrator when creating a
tenant. Tenant administrators can assign
the role to other users in their tenant at
any time from the Administration tab.
Fabric Administrator
n
Manage property groups.
n
Manage compute resources.
n
Manage network profiles.
n
Manage Amazon EBS volumes and
key pairs.
n
Manage machine prefixes.
n
Manage property dictionary.
n
Create and manage reservations
and reservation policies in their own
tenant.
n
If this role is added to a user with
IaaS administrator or system
administrator privileges, the user can
create and manage reservations and
reservation policies in any tenant.
The IaaS administrator designates the
fabric administrator when creating or
editing fabric groups.
Application architect
n
Assemble and manage composite
blueprints.
Tenant administrators can assign this role
to users in their tenant at any time from
the Administration tab.
Infrastructure Architect
n
Create and manage infrastructure
blueprint components.
n
Assemble and manage composite
blueprints.
Tenant administrators can assign this role
to users in their tenant at any time from
the Administration tab.
XaaS architect
n
Define custom resource types.
n
Create and publish XaaS blueprints.
n
Create and manage resource
mappings.
n
Create and publish resource actions.
Tenant administrators can assign this role
to users in their tenant at any time from
the Administration tab.
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