As a organization owner, you can assign users organization roles and service roles in VMware Aria Automation. The roles determine what users can do or see. Then, in the services, the service administrator can assign project roles. To determine the role that you want to assign, evaluate the tasks in the following tables.
Assembler Service Roles
The Automation Assembler service roles determine what you can see and do in Automation Assembler. These service roles are defined in the console by an organization owner.
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Assembler Administrator | A user who has read and write access to the entire user interface and API resources. This is the only user role that can see and do everything, including add cloud accounts, create new projects, and assign a project administrator. |
| Assembler User | A user who does not have the Assembler Administrator role. In an Automation Assembler project, the administrator adds users to projects as project members, administrators, or viewers. The administrator can also add a project administrator. |
| Assembler Viewer | A user who has read access to see information but cannot create, update, or delete values. This is a read-only role across all projects in all the services. Users with the viewer role can see all the information that is available to the administrator. They cannot take any action unless you make them a project administrator or a project member. If the user is affiliated with a project, they have the permissions related to the role. The project viewer would not extend their permissions the way that the administrator or member role does. |
In addition to the service roles, Automation Assembler has project roles. Any project is available in all of the services.
The project roles are defined in Automation Assembler and can vary between projects.
In the following tables, which tells you what the different service and project roles can see and do, remember that the service administrators have full permission on all areas of the user interface.
The descriptions of project roles will help you decide what permissions to give your users.
- Project administrators leverage the infrastructure that is created by the service administrator to ensure that their project members have the resources they need for their development work.
- Project members work within their projects to design and deploy cloud templates. Your projects can include only resources that you own or resources that are shared with other project members.
- Project viewers are restricted to read-only access, except in a few cases where they can do non-destructive things like download cloud templates.
- Project supervisors are approvers in Automation Service Broker for their projects where an approval policy is defined with a project supervisor approver. To provide the supervisor with context for approvals, consider also granting them the project member or viewer role.
| UI Context | Task | Assembler Administrator | Assembler Viewer | Assembler User User must be a project administrator or member to see and do project-related tasks. |
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| Project Administrator | Project Member | Project Viewer | Project Supervisor | ||||
| Access Assembler | |||||||
| Console | In the Automation console, you can see and open Assembler | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Infrastructure | |||||||
| See and open the Infrastructure tab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Administration - Projects | Create projects | Yes | |||||
| Update, or delete values from project summary, provisioning, Kubernetes, integrations, and test project configurations. | Yes | ||||||
| Add users and groups, and assign roles in projects. | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | |||||
| View projects | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | |
| Administration - Users and Groups | View the users and groups assigned to custom roles. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Custom Roles | Create custom user roles and assign them to users and groups. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Custom Names | Create custom resource names. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Secrets | Create and delete secret reusable properties. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Settings | Turn on or off internal settings. | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Cloud Zones | Create, update, or delete cloud zones | Yes | |||||
| View cloud zones | Yes | Yes | |||||
| View cloud zone Insights dashboard | Yes | Yes | |||||
| View cloud zones alerts | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Kubernetes Zones | Create, update, or delete Kubernetes zones | Yes | |||||
| View Kubernetes zones | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Flavors | Create, update, or delete flavors | Yes | |||||
| View flavors | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Image Mappings | Create, update, or delete image mappings | Yes | |||||
| View image mappings | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Network Profiles | Create, update, or delete network profiles | Yes | |||||
| View image network profiles | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Storage Profiles | Create, update, or delete storage profiles | Yes | |||||
| View image storage profiles | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Pricing Cards | Create, update, or delete pricing cards | Yes | |||||
| View the pricing cards | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Tags | Create, update, or delete tags | Yes | |||||
| View tags | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Resources - Compute | Add tags to discovered compute resources | Yes | |||||
| View discovered compute resources | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Resources - Networks | Modify network tags, IP ranges, IP addresses | Yes | |||||
| View discovered network resources | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Resources - Security | Add tags to discovered security groups | Yes | |||||
| View discovered security groups | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Resources - Storage | Add tags to discovered storage | Yes | |||||
| View storage | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Resources - Kubernetes | Deploy or add Kubernetes clusters, and create or add namespaces | Yes | |||||
| View Kubernetes clusters and namespaces | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Activity - Requests | Delete deployment request records | Yes | |||||
| View deployment request records | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Activity - Event Logs | View event logs | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | |
| Connections - Cloud Accounts | Create, update, or delete cloud accounts | Yes | |||||
| View cloud accounts | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Connections - Integrations | Create, update, or delete integrations | Yes | |||||
| View integrations | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Onboarding | Create, update, or delete onboarding plans | Yes | |||||
| View onboarding plans | Yes | Yes. Your projects | |||||
| Extensibility | |||||||
| See and open the Extensibility tab | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Events | View extensibility events | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Subscriptions | Create, update, or delete extensibility subscriptions | Yes | |||||
| Deactivate subscriptions | Yes | ||||||
| View subscriptions | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Library - Event topics | View event topics | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Library - Actions | Create, update, or delete extensibility actions | Yes | |||||
| View extensibility actions | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Library - Workflows | View extensibility workflows | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Activity - Action Runs | Cancel or delete extensibility action runs | Yes | |||||
| View extensibility action runs | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Activity - Workflow Runs | View extensibility workflow runs | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Design | |||||||
| Design | Open the Design tab | Yes | Yes | Yes. | Yes. | Yes. | Yes |
| Cloud Templates | Create, update, and delete cloud templates | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | |||
| View cloud templates | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Download cloud templates | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Upload cloud templates | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Deploy cloud templates | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Version and restore cloud templates | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Release cloud templates to the catalog | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Custom Resources | Create, update or delete custom resources | Yes | |||||
| View custom resources | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Custom Actions | Create, update, or delete custom actions | Yes | |||||
| View custom actions | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Resources | |||||||
| See and open the Resources tab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Deployments | View deployments including deployment details, deployment history, price, monitor, alerts, optimize, and troubleshooting information |
Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | |
| Manage alerts | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. your projects | ||||
| Run day 2 actions on deployments based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Resources - All Resources | View all discovered resources | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Run day 2 actions on discovered resources. Actions available only on machines and limited to power on and off for all machines, and remote console for vSphere machines. |
Yes | ||||||
| Resources - All Resources | View deployed, onboarded, migrated resources | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |
| Run Day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated resources based on policies | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |||
| Resources - Virtual Machines | View discovered machines | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Run day 2 actions on discovered machines. Actions are limited to power on and off, and remote console for vSphere machines. |
Yes | ||||||
| Create New VM This option is available to administrators. However, if an administrator turns on the setting, then it is available to the other users roles. To activate the option, select and turn on Create new resource. By activating the option, Automation Service Broker users can create VMs based on any image and any flavor even though they are not administrators themselves. To avoid the potential overconsumption of resources, administrators can create approval policies to reject or approve any deployment requests based on the image used or the flavor or size requested. |
Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |||
| View deployed, onboarded, and migrated resources. | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |||
| Run day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated resources based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||||
| Resources - Volumes | View discovered volumes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| No day 2 actions available | |||||||
| View deployed, onboarded, and migrated volumes | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||
| Run day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated volumes based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||||
| Resources - Networkin and Security | View discovered networks, load balancers, and security groups | Yes | Yes | ||||
| No day 2 actions available | |||||||
| View deployed, onboarded, and migrated networks, load balancers, and security groups | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||
| Run day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated networks, load balancers, and security groups based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||||
| Alerts | |||||||
| See and open the Alerts tab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Manage alerts | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| View alerts | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
Service Broker Service Roles
The Automation Service Broker service roles determine what you can see and do in Automation Service Broker. These service roles are defined in the console by an organization owner.
| Role | Description |
|---|---|
| Service Broker Administrator | Must have read and write access to the entire user interface and API resources. This is the only user role that can perform all tasks, including creating a new project and assigning a project administrator. |
| Service Broker User | Any user who does not have the Automation Service Broker Administrator role. In an Automation Service Broker project, the administrator adds users to projects as project members, administrators, or viewers. The administrator can also add a project administrator. |
| Service Broker Viewer | A user who has read access to see information but cannot create, update, or delete values. This is a read-only role across all projects in all the services. Users with the viewer role can see all the information that is available to the administrator. They cannot take any action unless you make them a project administrator or a project member. If the user is affiliated with a project, they have the permissions related to the role. The project viewer would not extend their permissions the way that the administrator or member role does. |
In addition to the service roles, Automation Service Broker has project roles. Any project is available in all of the services.
The project roles are defined in Automation Service Broker and can vary between projects.
In the following tables, which tells you what the different service and project roles can see and do, remember that the service administrators have full permission on all areas of the user interface.
Use the following descriptions of project roles will help you as you decide what permissions to give your users.
- Project administrators leverage the infrastructure that is created by the service administrator to ensure that their project members have the resources they need for their development work.
- Project members work within their projects to design and deploy cloud templates. In the following table, Your projects can include only resources that you own or resources that are shared with other project members.
- Project viewers are restricted to read-only access.
- Project supervisors are approvers in Automation Service Broker for their projects where an approval policy is defined with a project supervisor approver. To provide the supervisor with context for approvals, consider also granting them the project member or viewer role.
| UI Context | Task | Service Broker Administrator | Service Broker Viewer | Service Broker User User must be a project administrator to see and do project-related tasks. |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Administrator | Project Member | Project Viewer | Project Supervisor | ||||
| Access Service Broker | |||||||
| Console | In the console, you can see and open Service Broker | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Infrastructure | |||||||
| See and open the Infrastructure tab | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Projects | Create projects | Yes | |||||
| Update, or delete values from project summary, provisioning, Kubernetes, integrations, and test project configurations. | Yes | ||||||
| Add users and groups, and assign roles in projects. | Yes | Yes. Your projects Only via API. |
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| View projects | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Administration - Custom Roles | Create custom user roles and assign them to users and groups. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Custom Names | Create custom resource names. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Secrets | Create and delete secret reusable properties. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Settings | Turn on or off internal settings. | Yes | |||||
| Administration - Users and Groups | View the users and groups assigned to custom roles. | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Cloud Zones | Create, update, or delete cloud zones | Yes | |||||
| View cloud zones | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Configure - Kubernetes Zones | Create, update, or delete Kubernetes zones | Yes | |||||
| View Kubernetes zones | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Connections - Cloud Accounts | Create, update, or delete cloud accounts | Yes | |||||
| View cloud accounts | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Connections - Integrations | Create, update, or delete integrations | Yes | |||||
| View integrations | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Activity - Requests | Delete deployment request records | Yes | |||||
| View deployment request records | Yes | ||||||
| Activity - Event Logs | View event logs | Yes | |||||
| Content and Policies | |||||||
| See and open the Content and Policies tab | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Content Sources | Create, update, or delete content sources | Yes | |||||
| View content sources | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Content | Customize form and configure item | Yes | |||||
| View content | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Policies - Definitions | Create, update, or delete policy definitions | Yes | |||||
| View policy definitions | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Policies - Enforcement | View enforcement log | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Notifications - Email Server | Configure an email server | Yes | |||||
| Consume | |||||||
| See and open the Consume tab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Projects | See and search projects | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects |
| Catalog | See and open the Catalog page | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| View available catalog items | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||
| Request a catalog item | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Deployments - Deployments | View deployments, including deployment details, deployment history, price, monitor, alerts, optimize, and troubleshooting information |
Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | |
| Manage alerts | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Run day 2 actions on deployments based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects | Yes. Your projects | ||||
| Deployments - Resources | View all discovered resources | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Run day 2 actions on discovered resources. Actions available only on machines and limited to power on and off for all machines, and remote console for vSphere machines. |
Yes | ||||||
| Deployments - All Resources | View deployed, onboarded, migrated resources | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |
| Run Day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated resources based on policies | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |||
| Deployments - Virtual Machines | View discovered machines | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Run day 2 actions on discovered machines. Actions are limited to power on and off, and remote console for vSphere machines. |
Yes | ||||||
| Create New VM This option is available in Automation Service Broker if your administrator activates the option. To activate the option, select . By activating the option, Automation Service Broker users can create VMs based on any image and any flavor even though they are not administrators themselves. To avoid the potential overconsumption of resources, administrators can create approval policies to reject or approve any deployment requests based on the image used or the flavor or size requested. |
Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |||
| View deployed, onboarded, and migrated resources. | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | |||
| Run day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated resources based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||||
| Deployments - Volumes | View discovered volumes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| No day 2 actions available | |||||||
| View deployed, onboarded, and migrated volumes | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||
| Run day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated volumes based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||||
| Deployments - Networking and Security | View discovered networks, load balancers, and security groups | Yes | Yes | ||||
| No day 2 actions available | |||||||
| View deployed, onboarded, and migrated networks, load balancers, and security groups | Yes | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||
| Run day 2 actions on deployed, onboarded, and migrated networks, load balancers, and security groups based on policies | Yes | Yes. Your projects. | Yes. Your projects. | ||||
| Inbox | |||||||
| See and open the Inbox tab | Yes | Yes | |||||
| Approvals | View approval requests | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Respond to approval requests | Yes | Yes. Your projects and the policy approver is Project Administrator | Only if you are a named approver | Only if you are a named approver | Yes. Your projects and the policy approver is Project Supervisor | ||
| User Input Requests | View user input requests | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Respond to user input requests | Only if you are assigned to provide input | Only if you are assigned to provide input | Only if you are assigned to provide input | Only if you are assigned to provide input | Only if you are assigned to provide input | Only if you are assigned to provide input | |
