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What are the required vCenter permissions?
What are the required vCenter permissions?
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Written by Alex Patnick
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When deploying Faddom to discover a VMware vCenter-based environment, Faddom can use the VMware APIs to collect additional data on your environment.

In order to discover details on your VMware VMs and hosts, Faddom needs read-only access to the vCenter.

If you wish Faddom to deploy sensors and/or enable NetFlow automatically, you will need to add the following permissions. Once the deployment is complete, you can revert to read-only.

NetFlow (Distributed Switches Only)

  • DVSwitch.Modify

  • DVPortgroup.Modify

Sensor Deployment (All Switch Types)

  • Content Library

  • Datastore

  • dvPort

  • Host

  • vApp

  • Virtual Machine

Note

Content library permissions must be given on a global level. See here for an explanation.
For details on how to give a user global permissions, see here.
Make sure that Propagate to children is selected.

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