If you add a new vCenter Server user as administrator, the user automatically gets an Administrator role in vSphere.Ĭreate a local user on your Windows OS (vCenter) machine If you are using ActiveDirectory for authentication on your Windows OS (vCenter) machines and/or your ESX/i hosts, please skip to the "Make users in ActiveDirectory" section below. You must have a user account to authenticate with vCenter. You can use existing vCenter Server account credentials, or create a new account for Splunk App for VMware to access the vCenter Server data. These credentials are required for DCN configuration. the Splunk App for VMware uses the credentials when the DCN polls vCenter Server systems for performance, hierarchy, inventory, task, and event data.
These credentials allow the Splunk Add-on for VMware read-only API access to the appropriate metrics on each vCenter Server system in the environment. Obtain VMware vCenter Server account credentials for each vCenter Server system. This topic shows you how you can do this for vCenter. To create service accounts for the Splunk for VMware solution, you first need to create vCenter users, create roles, and then assign the users to the roles.
Create vCenter user accounts Configure users and roles for vCenter
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