Virtual machine service configuration privileges control who can perform monitoring and management tasks on the service configuration.

You can set this privilege at different levels in the hierarchy. For example, if you set a privilege at the folder level, you can propagate the privilege to one or more objects within the folder. The object listed in the Required On column must have the privilege set, either directly or inherited.

Table 1. Virtual Machine Service Configuration Privileges
Privilege Name in the vSphere Client Description Privilege Name in the API
  • Service configuration
    • Allow notifications
 Allows generating and consuming notification about service status. VirtualMachine.Namespace.Event
  • Service configuration
    • Allow polling of global event notifications
 Allows querying whether any notifications are present. VirtualMachine.Namespace.EventNotify
  • Service configuration
    • Manage service configurations
 Allows creating, modifying, and deleting virtual machine services. VirtualMachine.Namespace.Management
  • Service configuration
    • Modify service configuration
 Allows modification of existing virtual machine service configuration. VirtualMachine.Namespace.ModifyContent
  • Service configuration
    • Query service configurations
 Allows retrieval of list of virtual machine services. VirtualMachine.Namespace.Query
  • Service configuration
    • Read service configuration
 Allows retrieval of existing virtual machine service configuration. VirtualMachine.Namespace.ReadContent