vROPS | Cannot share dashboard with my account

Hello Folks,

However, today's post is giving solution for one issue but it will open up your mind to hunt for solution of many issues. If not then it will help you to understand roles and permission of vROPS with realtime example.

So, story is like, I was working on vRops and noticed that I couldn't share my dashboard which I created with my domain account. Hope you know how to share any dashboard created in vROPS. If not then refer to below image. Click on highlighted icon to share any dashboard.


But, I was not getting this icon. Refer to below image. Do you see any icon here? Of course not.


Now, let's hunt for solution. It is clear that if you don't see any functionality in any application then it can be due to two reasons

1. An application bug
2. Less or no access permissions

First point is ruled out because, I cross checked with admin account that I could see this option with admin account.

If not first then it is second point which is causing the issue here. Now, question is how to resolve it.

Here you go...

Question 1 - What is your user account name?

In my case, it is holadmin. I used VMware HOL to demonstrate this time ;)

Question 2 - This user is part of which "User groups"?

To check this, navigate as shown in below image

So, now we know that my user account that is "holadmin" is part of two groups that are "Everyone" and "HOL Admin Group".

Question 3 - What roles are assigned to these groups?

I would check in "HOL Admin Group" because "Everyone" group is default one. Want to know, how to check? follow below steps-


Now, as you can see in above pic that group "HOL Admin Group" has "Administrator" role. What Next?

Question 4 - This "Administrator" roles has which permissions?

Let's explore it further with below image.


To see all permission, you can check the permission column and to modify, click on EDIT.

Hope you can see that check boxes, Share(internal) and Share (public) are unchecked. This is the reason, I couldn't see the share icon because share dashboard permission was not granted to this group.

Share(Internal) - dashboard can be shared between the users who are part of this group only.

Share(Public) - dashboard can be shared between all the users who are part of any group in vrops.

Check both option (or one, as per your wish) and click on update.

That's it. After update, you will see the share icon as I shown above in very first image.

This was just an example but if you understand it then you will be able to resolve many such issues.

Hope it was useful!

Any thoughts, any comments are welcome!







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vROPS | how to check manually uploaded PAK file status

 Hello Guys,

VMware has this process mentioned but that is confusing to me and I had to deal it differently to make it happen. So, I thought to write down on my blog. I hope it will help many. Its again amazing that this process is not included in vROPS API guide.

Basically, after manually upload the PAK file or you can say that after pre-staging of PAK file, we need to ensure now that we did it right so we have to use this API way to check that.

Step 1 : Connect vROPS in API as per instructions in vROPS API guide
Step 2 : Again, as per instructions in api guide, use vrops auth token and basic authentication now.
Step 3 : This step, I didn't find anywhere in API guide. You need to modify the command as shown below with GET operation and then hit the search button.
https://myvrops.com:443/casa/upgrade/cluster/pak/vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883/status

vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883 > This is the PAK file ID of PAK file which I uploaded manually and want to check if distributed across the cluster or not.
Once I hit the go button, it give me below output.

=======Start here

{

    "cluster_pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

   "slices": [

        {

            "slice_address": "172.25.10.11", >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node 1

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED">>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It is Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": "upgrade.pak.warning",

                "orchestrator_action": "UNKNOWN",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.25.10.12",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node 2

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> it is again Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": "upgrade.pak.warning",

                "orchestrator_action": "UNKNOWN",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

           },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.25.2.238",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node3

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": null,

                "orchestrator_action": "UNKNOWN",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.17.1.238",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node4

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": "upgrade.pak.warning",

                "orchestrator_action": "NO_ACTION",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.17.1.239",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node5

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": "upgrade.pak.warning",

                "orchestrator_action": "NO_ACTION",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.25.3.238",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node 6

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": "upgrade.pak.warning",

                "orchestrator_action": "UNKNOWN",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.17.1.237",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node 7

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "NOT_DISTRIBUTED>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Here is the difference but still OK

                "pak_install_status": "INITIAL",

                "pak_distribution_progress": "6962",

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": "upgrade.pak.warning",

                "orchestrator_action": "NO_ACTION",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.17.1.248",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Host8

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": "upgrade.pak.warning",

                "orchestrator_action": "NO_ACTION",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.25.3.237",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node 9

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": null,

                "orchestrator_action": "UNKNOWN",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        },

        {

            "slice_address": "172.25.1.244",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Node 10

            "http_code": 200,

            "document": {

                "pak_id": "vRealizeOperationsManagerEnterprise-81116522883",

                "pak_state": "DISTRIBUTED",>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Okay

                "pak_install_status": "CANDIDATE",

                "pak_distribution_progress": null,

                "current_action": null,

                "node_unchanged": true,

                "failed_details": null,

                "warning_details": null,

                "orchestrator_action": "UNKNOWN",

                "pre_upgrade_validation_results_available": false,

                "log_links": []

            },

            "content_type": "application/json"

        }

    ],

    "cluster_data": {

        "cluster_action_failed": false,

        "cluster_action_failed_time": null,

        "cluster_action": "NO_ACTION"

    }

}

 =======End here

Please ignore any spelling or formatting slip-up due to lack of time but technical stuff is never compromised. Feel free to write me back in case of any confusion.


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Hello Folks,

My name is Gautam Johar. Actively working on VMware Cloud and keen to learn new and latest cloud technologies in market. Love to share my knowledge and experience with community. With this feeling, I started writing this blog. Try my best to share what I learn, what I know and what I could apply in my daily operations life.

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