- NAME
-
- gcloud alpha pam settings describe-effective - show effective Privileged Access Manager settings on a resource
- SYNOPSIS
-
-
gcloud alpha pam settings describe-effective
(--location
=LOCATION
:--folder
=FOLDER
--organization
=ORGANIZATION
) [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …
]
-
- DESCRIPTION
-
(ALPHA)
Show effective Privileged Access Manager (PAM) settings on a resource. The "effective value" of a setting on a given resource refers to the final or active value of a setting configuration that is applied to a resource. For each configuration type field in settings resource, a hierarchy evaluation will happen to calculate effective value on the resource node. - EXAMPLES
-
The following command describes effective settings on a project named
sample-project
, and in locationglobal
:gcloud alpha pam settings describe-effective --project=sample-project --location=global
The following command describes effective settings on a folder with ID
, and in locationFOLDER_ID
global
:gcloud alpha pam settings describe-effective --folder=FOLDER_ID --location=global
The following command describes effective settings on an organization with ID
, and in locationORGANIZATION_ID
global
:gcloud alpha pam settings describe-effective --organization=ORGANIZATION_ID --location=global
- REQUIRED FLAGS
-
-
Location resource - The project/organization/folder location for which the
effective settings are to be described. The arguments in this group can be used
to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given
arguments in this group but can be set in other ways.
To set the
project
attribute:-
provide the argument
--location
on the command line with a fully specified name; -
provide the argument
--project
on the command line; -
set the property
core/project
. This resource can be one of the following types: [privilegedaccessmanager.projects.locations, privilegedaccessmanager.folders.locations, privilegedaccessmanager.organizations.locations].
This must be specified.
--location
=LOCATION
-
ID of the location or fully qualified identifier for the location.
To set the
location
attribute:-
provide the argument
--location
on the command line.
This flag argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.
-
provide the argument
--folder
=FOLDER
-
The name of the folder
To set the
folder
attribute:-
provide the argument
--location
on the command line with a fully specified name; -
provide the argument
--folder
on the command line. Must be specified for resource of type [privilegedaccessmanager.folders.locations].
-
provide the argument
--organization
=ORGANIZATION
-
The name of the organization
To set the
organization
attribute:-
provide the argument
--location
on the command line with a fully specified name; -
provide the argument
--organization
on the command line. Must be specified for resource of type [privilegedaccessmanager.organizations.locations].
-
provide the argument
-
provide the argument
-
Location resource - The project/organization/folder location for which the
effective settings are to be described. The arguments in this group can be used
to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given
arguments in this group but can be set in other ways.
- GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
-
These flags are available to all commands:
--access-token-file
,--account
,--billing-project
,--configuration
,--flags-file
,--flatten
,--format
,--help
,--impersonate-service-account
,--log-http
,--project
,--quiet
,--trace-token
,--user-output-enabled
,--verbosity
.Run
$ gcloud help
for details. - API REFERENCE
-
This command uses the
privilegedaccessmanager/v1alpha
API. The full documentation for this API can be found at: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/pam-overview - NOTES
- This command is currently in alpha and might change without notice. If this command fails with API permission errors despite specifying the correct project, you might be trying to access an API with an invitation-only early access allowlist.
gcloud alpha pam settings describe-effective
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Last updated 2025-09-24 UTC.