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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide
  3. Section I. CloudPoint installation and configuration
  4. CloudPoint cloud plug-ins
  5. Google Cloud Platform plug-in configuration notes
  6. Google Cloud Platform permissions required by CloudPoint
Veritas NetBackup™ CloudPoint Install and Upgrade Guide

Google Cloud Platform permissions required by CloudPoint

Assign the following permissions to the service account that CloudPoint uses to access assets in the Google Cloud Platform:

compute.diskTypes.get
compute.diskTypes.list
compute.disks.create
compute.disks.createSnapshot
compute.disks.delete
compute.disks.get
compute.disks.list
compute.disks.setIamPolicy
compute.disks.setLabels
compute.disks.update
compute.disks.use
compute.globalOperations.get
compute.globalOperations.list
compute.images.get
compute.images.list
compute.instances.addAccessConfig
compute.instances.attachDisk
compute.instances.create
compute.instances.delete
compute.instances.detachDisk
compute.instances.get
compute.instances.list
compute.instances.setDiskAutoDelete
compute.instances.setMachineResources
compute.instances.setMetadata
compute.instances.setMinCpuPlatform
compute.instances.setServiceAccount
compute.instances.updateNetworkInterface 
compute.instances.setLabels
compute.instances.setMachineType
compute.instances.setTags
compute.instances.start
compute.instances.stop
compute.instances.use
compute.machineTypes.get
compute.machineTypes.list
compute.networks.get
compute.networks.list
compute.projects.get
compute.regionOperations.get
compute.regionOperations.list
compute.regions.get
compute.regions.list
compute.snapshots.create
compute.snapshots.delete
compute.snapshots.get
compute.snapshots.list
compute.snapshots.setLabels
compute.snapshots.useReadOnly
compute.subnetworks.get
compute.subnetworks.list
compute.subnetworks.update
compute.subnetworks.use
compute.subnetworks.useExternalIp
compute.zoneOperations.get
compute.zoneOperations.list
compute.zones.get
compute.zones.list

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