Dump roles and permissions

[jFishner]

I want to dump roles and privileges for audit purposes for my virtual center. How can I do this ? Sorry for not googling and asking questions here directly.

[lamw]

Take a look here: http://www.virtu-al.net/2009/06/15/vsphere-permissions-export-import-part-1/

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William Lam

VMware vExpert 2009

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[LucD]

If you have a large VI environment, the execution speed could become an issue.

Have a look at for different versions of the original script.

[harkamal · Accepted solution]

Get-PSSnapin -Registered | Add-PSSnapin -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Connect-VIServer -Server myVC.fqdn -User myUser -Password myPass


$si = Get-View ServiceInstance
$am = Get-View $si.Content.AuthorizationManager


$am.RoleList | % {
 $_.Name
 $_.Privilege | Sort | % { "`t" + $_ }
} | Out-File c:\dumpRole.txt | Notepad c:\dumpRole.txt

[jFishner]

thank you everyone, appreciated