An administrator must have certain privileges to manage pools in Horizon Console.

The following table lists common pool management tasks and shows the privileges that are required to perform each task.

Table 1. Pool Management Tasks and Privileges
Task Required Privileges
Enable or disable a farm, desktop, or application pool. Enable Farms, Desktops and Applications Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Entitle or unentitle users to a pool. Entitle Desktop and Application Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Add a pool. Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Modify or delete a pool. Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Add or remove desktops from a pool. Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Schedule push image, schedule maintenance, and change the default image for a desktop pool and farm. Manage Maintenance Operations on Automated Desktops & Farms and Manage vCenter Configuration (Read only)
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Change access groups. Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools on both the source and target access groups.
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Add a farm Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to perform this task.
Modify or delete a farm Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to add an application pool from a farm associated with app volumes manager.
Add or remove RDS hosts from a manual farm Permissions on Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools privilege and Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role.
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to add an application pool from a farm associated with app volumes manager.
Associate or unassociate app volumes manager for a farm Permissions on Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools privilege and Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role.
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to add an application pool from a farm associated with app volumes manager.
Add application pool Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools
Note: The administrator must also have the Global Configuration and Policy Administrators (Read only) role to add an application pool from a farm associated with app volumes manager.
Modify or delete an application pool Manage Farms and Desktop and Application Pools