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To let a user manage a content library and its items, an Administrator can assign the Content Library
Administrator role to that user as a global permission. The Content Library Administrator role is a sample
role in the vSphere Client.
Users who are Administrators can also manage libraries and their contents. If a user is an Administrator
at a vCenter Server level, they have sufficient privileges to manage the libraries that belong to this
vCenter Server instance, but cannot see the libraries unless they have a Read-Only role as a global
permission.
For example, a user has an Administrator role that is defined at a vCenter Server level. When the
Administrator navigates to Content Libraries in the object navigator, he sees 0 libraries despite there are
existing libraries in the vSphere inventory of that vCenter Server instance. To see the libraries, the
Administrator needs a Read-Only role assigned as a global permission.
Administrators whose role is defined as a global permissions can see and manage the libraries in all
vCenter Server instances that belong to the global root.
Because content libraries and their children items inherit permissions only from the global root object,
when you navigate to a library or a library item and click Configure tab, you can see there is no
Permissions tab. An Administrator cannot assign individual permissions on different libraries or different
items within a library.
Content Library Administrator Role
vCenter Server provides a sample role that allows you to give users or groups privileges to manage
selected content libraries.
Content Library Administrator role is a predefined role that gives a user privileges to monitor and manage
a library and its contents.
You can modify the role or use it as an example to create custom roles for specific tasks you want to allow
other users to perform.
If a user has this role on a library, that user can perform the following tasks on that library.
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Create, edit, and delete local or subscribed libraries.
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Synchronize a subscribed library and synchronize items in a subscribed library.
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View the item types supported by the library.
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Configure the global settings for the library.
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Import items to a library.
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Export library items.
Populating Libraries with Content
You can populate a content library with OVF templates that you can use to provision new virtual
machines. You can also add other files to a content library such as ISO images, scripts, and text files.
There are multiple ways to populate a library with items.
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