9.2 Cloud Manager Roles

A user must have one or more Cloud Manager roles in order to do anything in Cloud Manager. There are nine Cloud Manager roles. All nine roles can be given to System users, while only four of the roles can be given to Organization members. Each role carries its own set of rights and responsibilities for the Cloud Manager system or for an organization within the system.

9.2.1 Descriptions

Table 9-1 defines the 11 roles that you can hold as a System user. Each role carries its own set of responsibilities for the Cloud Manager system or for an organization within the system.

Table 9-1 System User Roles

Key

System User Role

Rights

CA

Cloud Administrator

Has full rights to the Cloud Manager system. Can perform all tasks in the system.

ZA

Zone Administrator

Has rights to manage the resources for one or more assigned zones. Only System users can be Zone Administrators.

CM

Catalog Manager

Has rights to create, modify, and delete workload templates. Workload templates must be assigned to organizations by the Cloud Administrator.

A

Approver

Has rights to approve or deny a business service request based on available zone and organization resource capacity.

BA

Build Administrator

Has rights to complete pre-build and post-build configuration for workloads in requested business services.

BGV

Business Group Viewer

Has rights to view business services for a business group.

BSO

Business Service Owner

Has rights to create, modify, and delete business services for an organization or for specific business groups within an organization.

OM

Organization Manager

Has rights to manage users, roles, resource assignments, and business services within an assigned organization. Both System users and Organization users can be Organization Managers. System users can be assigned as Organization Managers in multiple organizations. Organization users can be assigned as Organization Managers only in their own organization.

SM

Sales Manager

Has rights to view users, roles, resource assignments, and business services within an assigned organization. Both System users and Organization users can be Sales Managers. System users can be assigned as Sales Managers in multiple organizations. Organization users can be assigned as Sales Managers only in their own organization. Can create quotes for an organization in Cloud Marketplace.

SV

System Viewer

Has rights to view anything in the Cloud Manager system, but cannot perform any tasks. Only System users can be System Viewers.

Table 9-2 defines the 5 roles that you can hold as Organization roles. Both Organization users and System users can be assigned these roles.

Table 9-2 Organization Roles

Key

Organization Role

Rights

BGV

Business Group Viewer

Has rights to view business services for a business group.

BSO

Business Service Owner

Has rights to create, modify, and delete business services for an organization or for specific business groups within an organization.

OM

Organization Manager

Has rights to manage users, role assignments, resource assignments, and business services within an assigned organization. System users can be assigned as Organization Managers in multiple organizations. Organization users can be assigned as Organization Managers only in their own organization.

SM

Sales Manager

Has rights to view users, roles, resource assignments, and business services within an assigned organization. Both System users and Organization users can be Sales Managers. System users can be assigned as Sales Managers in multiple organizations. Organization users can be assigned as Sales Managers only in their own organization. Can create quotes for an organization in Cloud Marketplace.

S

Sponsor

Has rights to approve or deny a business service request based on financial reasons.

9.2.2 Rights

Table 9-3 System Management

System Management Rights

Roles (See Table 9-1)

CA

ZA

CM

A

BA

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

S

SV

USERS

Create System user accounts and user groups, either manually or by importing from an LDAP directory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modify System user and user group properties (email, phone number, and so forth)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROLES

Assign Cloud Administrator role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Zone Administrator role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Catalog Manager role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Build Administrator role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Approver role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign System Viewer role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAPACITY AND REPORTS

View resource capacity for system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 9-4 Zone Management

Zone Management Rights

Roles (See Table 9-1)

CA

ZA

CM

A

BA

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

S

SV

Assign Zone Administrator role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create, modify, retire, and delete zones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create, modify, and delete resource groups for zones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View resource capacity for zones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for zones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 9-5 Organization Management

Organization Management Rights

Roles (See Table 9-1)

CA

ZA

CM

A

BA

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

S

SV

USERS

Create Organization user accounts and user groups, either manually or by importing from an LDAP directory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modify Organization user and user group properties (email, phone number, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROLES

Assign Organization Manager role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Sponsor role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Business Group View role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Business Service Owner role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign Sales Manager role

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORGANIZATIONS

Create modify, and delete organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign a cost factor (discount or markup) to organizations*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign resource groups to organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign workload templates to organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign networks to organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS GROUPS

Create modify, and delete business groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign workload templates from an organization to its business groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign resource groups from an organization to its business groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign networks from an organization to its business groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View information and business services for business groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAPACITY AND REPORTS

View resource capacity for organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Applies only to an Organization Manager who is a System user. An Organization Manager who is a member of the organization cannot change the cost factor for the organization.

 

Table 9-6 Resource Management

Resource Management Rights

Roles (See Table 9-1)

CA

ZA

CM

A

BA

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

S

SV

RESOURCE GROUPS

Create, modify, and delete resource groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign resource groups to organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign resource groups to an organization’s business groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SERVICE LEVELS

Create modify, retire, and delete service levels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create modify, and delete service level objectives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign resource costs to service levels

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign service levels to resource groups

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAPACITY AND REPORTS

View resource capacity for organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View resource capacity for zones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View resource capacity for the system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for zones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for the system

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 9-7 Catalog Management

Catalog Management Rights

Roles (See Table 9-1)

CA

ZA

CM

A

BA

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

S

SV

Assign Catalog Managers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create, modify, retire, and delete workload templates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign workload templates to organizations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table 9-8 Business Service Management

Business Service Management Rights

Roles (See Table 9-1)

CA

ZA

CM

A

BA

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

S

SV

Import existing VMs as business services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request new business services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Request changes to existing business services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provide Administrator approval or rejection of business service requests (new and change)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Provide Sponsor approval or rejection of business service requests (new and change)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Complete pre- and post-build workload configuration tasks for business service requests (new and change)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delegate business service ownership to other users

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lifecycle business service workloads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remotely access business service workloads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View business services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delete business services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9.2.3 Rights by Organization Role

Table 9-9 Organization Management

Organization Management

Roles (See Table 9-2)

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

USERS

Create Organization user accounts and user groups, either manually or by importing from an LDAP directory

 

 

 

 

Modify Organization user and user group properties (email, phone number, etc.)

 

 

 

 

ROLES

Assign Organization Manager role

 

 

 

 

Assign Sponsor role

 

 

 

 

Assign Business Group View role

 

 

 

 

Assign Business Service Owner role

 

 

 

 

BUSINESS GROUPS

Create modify, and delete business groups

 

 

 

 

Assign workload templates from an organization to its business groups

 

 

 

 

Assign resource groups from an organization to its business groups

 

 

 

 

Assign networks from an organization to its business groups

 

 

 

 

View information and business services for a business group

 

 

 

CAPACITY & REPORTS

View resource capacity for organization

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for organization

 

 

 

 

 

Table 9-10 Resource Management

Resource Management

Roles (See Table 9-2)

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

RESOURCE GROUPS

Assign resource groups to an organization’s business groups

 

 

 

 

CAPACITY AND REPORTS

View resource capacity for organization

 

 

 

Generate resource capacity reports for organization

 

 

 

 

 

Table 9-11 Business Service Management

Business Service Management

Roles (See Table 9-2)

BGV

BSO

OM

SM

Request new business services

 

 

 

Request changes to existing business services

 

 

 

Provide Sponsor approval or rejection of business service requests (new and change)

 

 

 

 

Delegate business service ownership to other users

 

 

 

 

Cycle (start, suspend, stop) business service workloads

 

 

 

Remotely access business service workloads

 

 

 

View business services

 

 

 

Delete business services

 

 

Generate reports for business service costs