vRealize Log Insight : vRA Provisioning Status - Custom Dashboards Part 1

Both vROPs and vRLI already have Management Pack and Content Pack respectively for vRealize Automation, which shows a lot of useful information.
However recently one of my customer demanded that as a Business Group owner or Tenant Admin, if i want to see 

• Catalog-Items requested over time
• Who all requested which all CatalogItems
• How many successfully deployed and how many failed
• How much time did it take for the Catalog Request to complete etc etc... 

...without login to the vRA console, how can we achieve it.

The obvious expectation was to monitor it using vROPs or vRLI. But none of them share this information out of the box. 
So it got me thinking that since all this information is available in form of events in 

/var/log/vmware/vcac/catalina.out, if i can use vRLI Custom Dashboard UI to achieve it.

Hence i started working on this project.

In this series of posts, i will try to share the recipe of creating these Dashboards, as the ingredients are unique for every setup. Which is why you may not find a readymade content pack at the end of this blog :)

To begin with Let's start with the first post...

Post Series PART 1: Catalog-Items Request UI

vRealize Log Insight - Role Based Access Control

Role Based Access Control let system administrators control user access to vRealize Log Insight. This post talks about the configuring RBAC with vRealize Log Insight and using it control the access to sections of vRLI UI.

RBAC can be configured with local users, as well with some central identity source (like Active Directory) based users as well 

vRLI used to offer integration using vIDM and direct Active Directory till v4.3. 
From v4.5 onwards AD integration is deprecated. The option is still available but for users to transition from AD to vIDM integration.