What user permissions/roles are required for the VMware vCenter user account to perform fence action using Vmware fencing agents?

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Issue

  • What user permissions/roles are required for the VMware vCenter user account to perform fence action using fence_vmware_soap or fence_vmware_rest ?

  • Fencing a cluster node failed with the following error:

       Sep  7 12:34:25 node42 fence_vmware_soap: Failed: The user does not have the correct privileges to do the requested action.
   Sep  7 12:34:26 node42 stonith-ng[1723]:  notice: fence_vmware_soap_reboot_2:39413:stderr [ 2022-09-07 12:34:25,795 ERROR: Failed: The user does not have the correct privileges to do the requested action. ]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 9 (with the High Availability Add on)
  • Cluster nodes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as VMware guests (RHEL5.7+ RHEL6.2+)
  • fence_vmware_soap
  • fence_vmware_rest

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