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OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 5.2 Installation Guide

Register vCenter server using a non-administrative account

Prerequisites

You can register vCenter servers for the OMIVV appliance with vCenter administrator credentials or a non-administrator user with the Dell privileges.

About this task

To enable a non-administrator user with the required privileges to register a vCenter server, perform the following steps:

Steps

  1. Create a role or modify existing role with a required privileges for the role.
    For more information about the list of privileges required for the role, see Required privileges for non-administrator users.
    For the steps required to create or modify a role and select privileges in the vSphere Client (HTML-5), see the VMware vSphere documentation
  2. Assign a user to the newly created role after you define a role and select privileges for the role.
    For more information about assigning a role to privilege, see the VMware vSphere documentation.
    A vCenter Server non-administrator user with the required privileges can now register and/or unregister vCenter, modify credentials, or update the certificate.
  3. Register a vCenter server using a non-administrator user with the required privileges.
  4. After registration is complete, assign the Dell privileges to the role created or modified in step 1. See Assign Dell privileges to existing role.

Results

A non-administrator user with the required privileges can now use the OMIVV features with the Dell EMC hosts.

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