Understanding the Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager

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VCEM role-based domain management
VCEM includes several levels of role-based administration to control management access and operations. Role-
based management allows you to control user and administrator access by assigning administrator accounts roles
ranging from complete authority over the environment to limited access to certain areas. Figure 3 shows the VCEM
command hierarchy and Table 1 defines the roles.
Figure 3: This is the command hierarchy in role-based VCEM management.
Table 1: Access and management responsibility for VCEM domain management roles
Role
Access
Management responsibility
VCEM Administrator
Full read-write access to all VCEM
operations
Create and edit domain groups, domain, server
profile, operations
Domain Group
Administrator
Full read-write access to assigned
groups only
Manage domain groups, domains, and server
profiles in assigned domain group(s)
Domain group operator
Full server profiles read-write access
to assigned groups only
No domain level operations
Full profile operations in assigned domain group(s)
Domain group limited
operator
Partial server profiles read-write
access to assigned groups only
No domain level operations
Same level of permission as Domain group operator
role except for creating, editing, or deleting server
profiles
VCEM user
Read-only
Read-only access to VCEM data
VCEM management integration
VCEM is tightly integrated with other HP infrastructure software to provide a comprehensive management tool set for
BladeSystem with Virtual Connect. Figure 4 shows the HP integrated management stack. VCEM interacts with VCM,