By default, users in VMware Aria Automation are identified with user IDs, such as Active Directory SAM Account Names or User Principal Names (UPN). You can expose the personal names (first and last name) of your users on different pages across the organization, such as Resources, Deployments, and Policies.

To be legally compliant with regulations such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and others, you must provide explicit consent to data compliance when you expose the names of users.

If you deactivate the feature, you revoke consent and the names of your users will no longer be displayed in the VMware Aria Automation user interface.

Important: VMware Aria Automation employs a data at rest policy, which means that storing personal user data is necessary for performance and low latency requirements of the application, so storing the data is considered legally data compliant with or without explicit user consent.

For more information, see the Privacy and Data Protection policies.

Procedure

  1. Log in as an administrator.
  2. Go to Infrastructure > Settings, and click Show names of users.
  3. Toggle the feature on or off.
  4. Click Save.