Role Based Access Control overview

In the section related to user management we have introduced the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) feature. Now it is time to discover it in detail.

RBAC allows you to assign roles and permissions to users in order to control who has access to your XenServer pool and what actions they can perform. Using RBAC, you can map a user or a group of users that can access your XenServer pool to defined roles. Each role has some associated permissions that give to the user or the group of users the ability to perform certain operations.

RBAC allows you to easily restrict which operations different groups of users can perform, thus reducing the probability of an accident by an inexperienced user.

Note that you must enable Active ...

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