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The article explains how to grant Cloudaware additional permissions, such as to Google Organizations or Google Billing accounts, and create a custom role for backups and tagging. Ensure you have the necessary permissions in Google Cloud. |
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Google Organizations
For Cloudaware to be able to collectGoogle Organizations and related data, assign the role 'Viewer' to the service account added to Cloudaware. The following permissions are required:
Organization Role Viewer
Folder Viewer
Organization Viewer
Organization Policy Viewer
Project Viewer
Click Save SAVE.
Assign the 'Project Viewer' role on at the organization level for Cloudaware to automatically add and collect Google Projects within a Google Organization :automatically.
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billing accounts
For Cloudaware to be able to collect the list of Google Billing AccountsGoogle billing accounts, assign the role 'Billing Account Viewer' to the service account* that has access to billing accounts in question.
1. Go to Billing.
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Log in to the Google console. Go to
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Billing' → 'MY BILLING ACCOUNTS'.
Select the billing account by checking the check box. Click
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ADD PRINCIPAL on the right to manage permissions.
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Select the
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role Billing Account Viewer →
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SAVE.
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*Note that the Google service account should be added to Cloudaware. See the guide
Custom role for backups or tagging
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A custom role is necessary if you are going to use backups and labels.
Go to IAM & admin, select "Roles" and click +Create Role.
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Add the name and the description of the custom roleTo use backups and tagging, create a custom role and assign it to the Cloudaware service account:
Log in to the Google console. Go to 'IAM & admin' → 'Roles' → +CREATE ROLE.
Set a meaningful name and description for the custom role, e.g. Cloudaware Custom Role. Set 'Role launch stage' as General Availability
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Click +ADD PERMISSIONS. Select the following permissions:
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Click CREATE.
Assign the custom role to the service account
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→ click the pencil icon to edit principal → ADD ANOTHER ROLE → Custom → Cloudaware Custom Role → SAVE.