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Roles

CA VM:Director functionality is associated with the following roles:

System Administrator

The system administrator performs the following tasks:

• Installing, maintaining, and configuring CA VM:Director.
• Starting and stopping the product and setting its startup options.
• Defining directory managers to perform certain functions for groups of users. By distributing control to different people within the organization, the system administrator assigns these people responsibility for different aspects of systems management and security.
• Managing directories and disk spaces. However, the system administrator often delegates directory management to designated directory managers.

Directory Manager

A CA VM:Director directory manager creates and modifies assigned user IDs and manages the minidisks that belong to those user IDs. If authorized, the directory manager can also perform other tasks for the users that they manage.

General Users

General users can use CA VM:Director to make certain changes to their own user IDs and to remove links that other users make to their minidisks.