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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

You're reading from   Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide Deploy and manage XenServer in your enterprise to create, integrate, manage and automate a virtual datacenter quickly and easily with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849686167
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing XenServer Resource Pools FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing User Authentication 3. Managing Storage Repositories 4. Creating Virtual Machines 5. Managing Virtual Machines 6. Managing XenServer and Virtual Machine Memory 7. Managing XenServer Networking 8. Managing High Availability and Snapshots 9. Protecting and Monitoring XenServer Supported Guest Operating Systems and Virtual Machine Templates Applying Updates and Hotfixes Index

Assigning roles to users and groups


All XenServer users must have an RBAC role. We have discovered that when new users are added in the XenServer free and advanced editions, they are automatically assigned the Pool Administrator role. If you have the Enterprise or higher edition, you must assign roles to newly added accounts separately, because XenServer does not assign account roles automatically in these editions.

You can assign a user a different role by one of the following methods:

  • Change the role assigned to the user in the Select Roles dialog in XenCenter. This requires the Assign/Modify role permission, which is only available to a Pool Administrator.

  • Modify the user's containing group membership in Active Directory (so that the user becomes part of a group that is assigned a different role).

Assigning or changing a role to a user or group

You can change or assign roles to users or groups using XenCenter or xe CLI. To do this task in XenCenter, follow this procedure:

  1. In the Resources...

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