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Table of Contents
Document Overview .................................................................................... 1
How this Guide relates to other documentation .................................................................................. 1
Managing users ............................................................................................ 2
Authenticating users using Active Directory (AD) ................................................................................. 2
Configuring Active Directory authentication ................................................................................ 3
User authentication .............................................................................................................. 5
Removing access for a user .................................................................................................. 6
Leaving an AD domain ......................................................................................................... 6
Role Based Access Control ........................................................................................................... 7
Roles ................................................................................................................................ 8
Definitions of RBAC roles and permissions ................................................................................ 9
Working with RBAC using the xe CLI ..................................................................................... 14
To list all the available defined roles in XenServer ............................................................... 14
To display a list of current subjects: ............................................................................... 15
To add a subject to RBAC ........................................................................................... 16
To assign an RBAC role to a created subject ................................................................... 16
To change a subject’s RBAC role: ................................................................................. 17
Auditing ........................................................................................................................... 17
Audit log xe CLI commands ......................................................................................... 17
To obtain all audit records from the pool ......................................................................... 17
To obtain audit records of the pool since a precise millisecond timestamp ............................... 17
To obtain audit records of the pool since a precise minute timestamp ..................................... 17
How does XenServer compute the roles for the session? ............................................................ 18
XenServer hosts and resource pools ....................................................... 19
Hosts and resource pools overview ................................................................................................ 19
Requirements for creating resource pools ........................................................................................ 19
