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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 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.

Google

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billing accounts

For Cloudaware to collect Google Billing Accountsbilling 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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  1. Log in to the Google console. Go to 'Billing' → 'MY BILLING ACCOUNTS'.

  2. Select the billing account by checking the check box. Click ADD PRINCIPAL on the right to manage permissions.

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  1. Select

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  1. the role Billing Account Viewer

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  1. 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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To use backups and tagging, create a custom role and assign it to the Cloudawareservice Cloudaware service account:

  1. Log in to the Google console. Go to 'IAM & admin, select "Roles" and click +Create Role.

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  1. ' → 'Roles' → +CREATE ROLE.

  2. 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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  2. Click +ADD PERMISSIONS. Select the following permissions:

For backups

For labels (tags)

  • compute.disks.get

  • compute.disks.createSnapshot

  • compute.disks.list

  • compute.disks.setLabels

  • compute.snapshots.create

  • compute.snapshots.delete

  • compute.snapshots.get

  • compute.snapshots.list

  • compute.snapshots.setLabels

  • compute.zones.get

  • compute.zones.list

For labels (tags)

  • bigquery.datasets.update

  • bigquery.tables.update

  • cloudsql.instances.update

  • compute.addresses.setLabels

  • compute.disks.setLabels

  • compute.forwardingRules.setLabels

  • compute.globalAddresses.setLabels

  • compute.globalForwardingRules.setLabels

  • compute.images.setLabels

  • compute.instances.setLabels

  • compute.snapshots.setLabels

  • compute.targetVpnGateways.setLabels

  • compute.vpnTunnels.setLabels

  • dataproc.clusters.update

  • dataproc.jobs.update

  • cloudkms.cryptoKeys.update

  • storage.buckets.update

Click CREATE.

  1. Assign the custom role to the service account: 'IAM & admin

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  1. ' → IAM select the service account → click the pencil icon to edit principal → ADD ANOTHER ROLE → Custom → Cloudaware Custom Role → SAVE.