This is an archive version of the document. To get the most up-to-date information, see the current version.Managing Portal Administrators
You can assign the role of a Portal Administrator to users and user groups, enable and disable Portal Administrators.
Assigning Portal Administrator Role
To assign the role of a Portal Administrator to a user, add this user to the local Administrators group on the machine hosting Veeam Availability Console. If you installed Veeam Availability Console using the distributed deployment scenario, this must be a machine on which the Veeam Availability Console Server component runs. For details, see Microsoft Documentation.
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To be able to log in to Veeam Availability Console web UI, users or groups must be specified in the Allow log on locally security policy setting on the machine where Veeam Availability Console Server component is installed. |
Disabling Portal Administrators
To control access to Veeam Availability Console for Portal Administrators, you can enable and disable users or groups of users with Portal Administrator privileges.
To disable a user or a user group with Portal Administrator privileges:
- Log in to Veeam Availability Console as a Portal Administrator.
For details, see Accessing Veeam Availability Console.
- At the top right corner of the Veeam Availability Console window, click Configuration.
- In the configuration menu on the left, click Roles and Users.
- At the top of the page, select the Administrator role.
- Select the necessary user or user group in the list.
To narrow down the list of users, you can apply the following filters:
- Username — limit the list of users by name.
- User Type — limit the list of users by type (User, Group).
- Click Disable.
Enabling Portal Administrators
To enable a user group with Portal Administrator privileges:
- Log in to Veeam Availability Console as a Portal Administrator.
For details, see Accessing Veeam Availability Console.
- At the top right corner of the Veeam Availability Console window, click Configuration.
- In the configuration menu on the left, click Roles and Users.
- At the top of the page, select the Administrator role.
- Select the necessary user or user group in the list.
To narrow down the list of users, you can apply the following filters:
- Username — limit the list of users by name.
- User Type — limit the list of users by type (User, Group).
- Click Enable.