How to Add Members to the Administrator Role in Operations Manager 2007

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Applies To: Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2, Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1

To configure System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 or later for integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 (VMM), you must be a member of the Administrator role in Operations Manager. Use the following procedure to add members to the Administrator role in Operations Manager. The account that you use for the Operations Manager integration with VMM also must have Administrator rights on the VMM server.

When Operations Manager 2007 SP1 or later is deployed, an Active Directory users group is specified as the Operations Manager Administrators group. To be added to the Operations Manager Administrator user role, your domain account must be a member of that group.

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To perform the following procedure, you must be a member of the Operations Manager Administrators role.

To add members to the Operations Manager Administrator role

  1. Open the Operations console for Operations Manager 2007. To do this, on the Start menu, click All Programs, click System Center Operations Manager 2007, and then click Operations Console.

  2. Click Administration under the navigation pane to display the Administration view.

  3. In the navigation pane, click User Roles.

  4. In the results pane, under Profile: Administrator, right-click Operations Manager Administrators, and then select Properties.

    In the Operations Manager Administrators – User Role Properties dialog box, the General tab shows the Active Directory users group that was assigned to this user role during Setup. The default group is BUILTIN\Administrators.

  5. To begin to add members to the user role, click Add.

  6. In the Select Group dialog box, click Locations.

  7. In the Locations dialog box, expand the OU tree, navigate to the OU that contains the group that you want to add to the role, and then click OK.

  8. In the Select Group dialog box, under Enter the object name to select, type the name of the group or user account, and then click Check Names. If the account is found, the account name will be underlined. Click OK.

  9. In the Operations Manager Administrators – User Role Properties dialog box, note that the group that you just selected has been added to the Administrator user role.

See Also

Tasks

How to Update Your Operations Manager Integration After Upgrading to VMM 2008 R2

Other Resources

Configuring Operations Manager Integration with VMM