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NetApp Disaster Recovery roles in NetApp Console

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You can assign the following roles to users to provide them access to NetApp Disaster Recovery within the Console. Disaster Recovery roles give you the flexibility to assign users a role specific to the tasks they need to accomplish within your organization. How you assign roles depends on your own business and storage management practices.

Disaster Recovery uses the following roles:

  • Disaster recovery admin: Perform any actions.

  • Disaster recovery failover admin: Perform failovers and migrations.

  • Disaster recovery application admin: Create and modify replication plans; initiate test failovers.

  • Disaster recovery viewer: View information only.

The following table indicates the actions that each role can perform.

Action Disaster recovery admin Disaster recovery failover admin Disaster recovery application admin Disaster recovery viewer

Activation and discovery

Activate license

Yes

No

Yes

No

Initiate free trial

Yes

No

No

No

Initiate discovery of workloads

Yes

No

No

No

View dashboard and all tabs

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

View license information

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

View credentials

Yes

Yes

No

No

Create, update, or delete credentials

Yes

Yes

No

No

Sites

View sites

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Add, modify, or delete sites or clusters

Yes

No

No

No

View clusters

Yes

No

No

No

Replication plans

View replication plans

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

View replication plan details

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Create or modify replication plans

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Create reports

Yes

No

No

No

View snapshots

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Perform failover tests

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Perform failovers

Yes

Yes

No

No

Perform failbacks

Yes

Yes

No

No

Perform migrations

Yes

Yes

No

No

Settings

Create or modify AppVaults

Yes

Yes

No

No

Create or modify resource transformations

Yes

Yes

No

No

Resource groups

View resource groups

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Create, modify, or delete resource groups

Yes

No

Yes

No

Job monitoring

View jobs

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Cancel jobs

Yes

Yes

Yes

No