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Roles
The Roles option from the Administration menu is available only when the view is set to
Administration and the Roles tab is selected. This menu works like a context menu where you
can add, edit, rename, or remove roles based on what object is selected. While you set up the
roles and accounts within this area, you apply those roles for permissions against vCenter
objects within the various inventory views. Chapter 8 describes vCenter Server's roles in detail.
Licensing
In the previous section we explained how you would go about setting a license for a specii c
vCenter Server through the inventories vCenter view. There are also licensing options when
you select individual hosts in the Hosts And Clusters view. However, the Licensing area of the
vSphere Web Client home screen gives you a broad view of all your licenses within the environ-
ment and to which component those licenses are allocated.
Within Licensing, you can also report on your license usage over time and export this data.
Depending on how complex your environment and license agreement is with VMware, you will
seldom use this area, or only dedicated licensing staff will look at this section. Standard (Perpetual)
licenses or VSPP licensing agreements are all managed through the overall licensing area.
vCenter Solutions Manager
As extensions are added to vCenter Server—such as vSphere Update Manager or vSphere Auto
Deploy—additional icons, tabs, and features may appear throughout the vSphere Web Client.
The extensions themselves that enable these new features are managed through this vCenter
Solutions Manager area.
The next chapter, Chapter 4, discusses one such extension to vCenter Server, and that is
vSphere Update Manager.
Log Browser
The Log Browser feature doesn't come under the Administration banner on the vSphere Web
Client home screen (because it's only listed in the Navigator), but just like the Licensing section,
this feature gives you an aerial view of all logs within your environment. We explained previ-
ously, in the section “Understanding Basic Host Management,” that within the various objects,
you can check their individual logs. This command allows you to view, browse, search, and
export the logs from vCenter Server and/or one or more ESXi hosts. When you select the Log
Browser from the Navigator on the home screen, you can select which object you wish to see the
log entries for and the dialog box shown in Figure 3.32 appears.
Perform the following tasks to export system logs out of vCenter Server:
1.
With the vSphere Web Client running and connected to a vCenter Server instance, from
the home screen, select Log Browser.
2.
Select the vCenter Server from the Select An Object dialog box and click OK.
