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Permissions by Object

This report provides information about permissions assigned in your virtual environment, including individual permissions for every object. The report lists virtual infrastructure objects and shows permissions that each registered user has for these items.

Permissions by Object Report
Permissions by Object
Permissions by Object

Use Case

This report helps senior IT administrators review permissions for any given object (vCenter Server, cluster, storage, datacenter, resource pool, vApp, host system and/or VM).

Report Parameters

You can specify the following report parameters:

  • Scope: defines a virtual infrastructure level and its sub-components to analyze in the report.
  • Object Name: defines a name of the virtual infrastructure object for which permissions should be shown. You can specify either an exact object name or a part of the name.
  • Object Type: defines a type of virtual infrastructure objects for which permissions should be shown.
  • User/Group: defines a user or a user group for which permissions should be shown.
  • Role: defines a user role that should be included in the report.
  • Propagate: defines whether permissions that can be propagated to child/dependent objects should be included in the report.