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Resource Management:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator

Last Updated:Aug 28, 2026

Designates a resource directory member as a delegated administrator account of a trusted service.

Operation description

The delegated administrator account can access the structure and members of the resource directory, and perform service-related management operations on behalf of the management account of the resource directory.

Note the following limits:

  • Only some trusted services support delegated administrator accounts. Supported trusted services.

  • Only the management account of a resource directory, or an authorized RAM user or RAM role of the management account, can call this operation.

  • The number of delegated administrator accounts allowed for a trusted service is defined by the trusted service.

The following example designates member 181761095690**** as a delegated administrator account of Cloud Firewall.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

resourcemanager:RegisterDelegatedAdministrator

create

*Account

acs:resourcemanager:*:{#accountId}:account/{#ResourceDirectoryPath}

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

AccountId

string

Yes

The ID of the member in the resource directory.

181761095690****

ServicePrincipal

string

Yes

The identifier of the trusted service.

Valid values are listed in the Trusted service identifier column of Supported trusted services.

cloudfw.aliyuncs.com

This operation also uses Common parameters.

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

RequestId

string

The request ID.

0A45FC8F-54D2-4A65-8338-25E5DEBDA304

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "0A45FC8F-54D2-4A65-8338-25E5DEBDA304"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

409 InvalidParameter.ServicePrincipal The specified ServicePrincipal is invalid. The specified ServicePrincipal is invalid.
409 AccountAlreadyRegistered The specified account is already a delegated administrator for this service. The specified account is already a delegated administrator for this service.
409 DelegatedAccountNumberExceeded The maximum number of delegated administrators for the service principal is exceeded. The maximum number of delegated administrators for the service principal is exceeded.
409 CannotRegisterMasterAsDelegatedAdministrator You attempted to register the enterprise management account as a delegated administrator for the service. You can designate only a member account as a delegated administrator.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.