9.4. Templates and Permissions
9.4.1. Managing System Permissions for a Template
The system administrator, as the SuperUser, manages all aspects of the Administration Portal. More specific administrative roles can be assigned to other users. These restricted administrator roles are useful for empowering a user with certain administrative privileges that limit them to a specific resource: a DataCenterAdmin role has administrator privileges only for the assigned data center, a ClusterAdmin has administrator privileges only for the assigned cluster, and so forth.
A template administrator is a system administration role for templates in a data center. This role can be applied to specific virtual machines, to a data center, or to the whole virtualized environment; this is useful to allow different users to manage certain virtual resources.
The template administrator role permits the following actions:
- Create, edit, export, and remove associated templates; and
- import and export templates.
Note
You can only assign roles and permissions to existing users.