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petro74
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vum user permissions

Hello community,

after a short research I couldn't find an answer to my question "What permissions does  a created user need to connect to vCenter and patch hosts?".

The thing is I would like to create a special user only for the update manager. For security reseasons he shouldn't have admin permissions. There is allready a predefined role "VMware vSphere Update Manager", which I allready applied to the created user, but when I try to connect to vCenter with this user, I get connection failed message. Does someone know, what permission(s) the user need, to connect from update manager to vCenter?

Thanks a lot for some suggestions and help.

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Hi,

I do not see any default role for update manager in vCenter 6.0 u2. I created new role as 'UpdateManager' with Below Update manager privileges.

updatemanager.PNG

Then provide permission to user at vCenter level and assign this new role.

This will provide Update manager permission to user to all below child object.

Also user with this role, will able to see all the host, resource poo, datastore, networks and VMs but he cannot edit/delete any object except just using update manager feature.

Thanks,

Haridas

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vHaridas
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Hi,

I do not see any default role for update manager in vCenter 6.0 u2. I created new role as 'UpdateManager' with Below Update manager privileges.

updatemanager.PNG

Then provide permission to user at vCenter level and assign this new role.

This will provide Update manager permission to user to all below child object.

Also user with this role, will able to see all the host, resource poo, datastore, networks and VMs but he cannot edit/delete any object except just using update manager feature.

Thanks,

Haridas

Please consider awarding points for "Correct" or "Helpful" replies. Thanks....!!! https://vprhlabs.blogspot.in/
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