To create an administrator, you select a user or group from your Active Directory users and groups in Horizon Console and assign an administrator role.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. In Horizon Console, navigate to Settings > Administrators.
  2. On the Administrators and Groups tab, click Add User or Group.
  3. Click Add, select one or more search criteria, and click Find to filter Active Directory users or groups based on your search criteria.
  4. Select the Active Directory user or group that you want to be an administrator user or group and click OK.
    You can press the Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple users and groups.
  5. Click Next and select a role.
    The Access Groups column indicates whether a role applies to access groups. Only roles that contain object-specific privileges apply to access groups. Roles that contain only global privileges do not apply to access groups.
    Option Action
    The role you selected applies to access groups Click Next and select one or more access groups.
    You want the role to apply to all access groups Click Next and select the root access group.
    For information about federation access groups, see the Cloud Pod Architecture in Horizon document.
  6. Click Finish to create the administrator user or group.

Results

The new administrator user or group appears in the left pane and the role and access group that you selected appear in the right pane on the Administrators and Groups tab.