A user's role can be changed in two ways:

1.Modify the subject -> role mapping (this requires the assign/modify role permission, only available to a Pool Administrator.)

2.Modify the user's containing group membership in Active Directory.

Definitions of RBAC roles and permissions

The following table summarizes which permissions are available for each role. For details on the operations available for each permission, see Definitions of permissions.

Table 1. Permissions available for each role

Role

Pool Admin

Pool

VM Power

VM Admin

VM

Read Only

permissions

 

Operator

Admin

 

Operator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assign/

X

 

 

 

 

 

modify roles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Log in to

X

 

 

 

 

 

(physical)

 

 

 

 

 

 

server

 

 

 

 

 

 

consoles

 

 

 

 

 

 

(through

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSH and

 

 

 

 

 

 

XenCenter)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Server

X

 

 

 

 

 

backup/

 

 

 

 

 

 

restore

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Log out

X

X

 

 

 

 

active user

 

 

 

 

 

 

connections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Create and

X

X

 

 

 

 

dismiss

 

 

 

 

 

 

alerts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cancel task

X

X

 

 

 

 

of any user

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pool

X

X

 

 

 

 

management

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VM

X

X

X

 

 

 

advanced

 

 

 

 

 

 

operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VM create/

X

X

X

X

 

 

destroy

 

 

 

 

 

 

operations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Citrix Systems 5.6 manual Definitions of Rbac roles and permissions, Users role can be changed in two ways