A single management facility in a virtualized system that facilitates the
presentation of either a virtual element view or system view to a network
management user depending upon the user's access rights is disclosed. The
view presented to the user is modified based on the scope and type of
access rights, which are found in a profile object, that is stored in an
environmental object, established during the user login. Each virtualized
element in the system includes management information that is associated
with the virtual element via a virtual identifier. The management
information indicates the level of the user access rights necessary to
view the associated virtual element. Requests by a user to access
management information associated with a virtual element are analyzed to
determine if the access rights specified in the user profile enable the
user to access the information associated with the virtual element.