[release-4.19] OCPBUGS-77007: add vsphere permissions for checking if users is authorized to see metrics

[openshift-cherrypick-robot]

This is an automated cherry-pick of #663

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@openshift-cherrypick-robot: Jira Issue OCPBUGS-75912 has been cloned as Jira Issue OCPBUGS-77007. Will retitle bug to link to clone.
/retitle [release-4.19] OCPBUGS-77007: add vsphere permissions for checking if users is authorized to see metrics

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@openshift-cherrypick-robot: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-77007, which is invalid:

• expected dependent Jira Issue OCPBUGS-75912 to be in one of the following states: VERIFIED, RELEASE PENDING, CLOSED (ERRATA), CLOSED (CURRENT RELEASE), CLOSED (DONE), CLOSED (DONE-ERRATA), but it is MODIFIED instead

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/retest

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/jira refresh

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@rhrmo: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-77007, which is valid. The bug has been moved to the POST state.

7 validation(s) were run on this bug

• bug is open, matching expected state (open)
• bug target version (4.19.z) matches configured target version for branch (4.19.z)
• bug is in the state ASSIGNED, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)
• release note text is set and does not match the template
• dependent bug Jira Issue OCPBUGS-75912 is in the state Verified, which is one of the valid states (VERIFIED, RELEASE PENDING, CLOSED (ERRATA), CLOSED (CURRENT RELEASE), CLOSED (DONE), CLOSED (DONE-ERRATA))
• dependent Jira Issue OCPBUGS-75912 targets the "4.20.z" version, which is one of the valid target versions: 4.20.0, 4.20.z
• bug has dependents

No GitHub users were found matching the public email listed for the QA contact in Jira (wduan@redhat.com), skipping review request.

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/lgtm
/approve

[jsafrane]

/approve
/label backport-risk-assessed

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[radeore]

Pre-merge verified on cluster-bot generated 4.19 ci build,

OCP version:

Server Version: 4.19.0-0-2026-03-02-141938-test-ci-ln-4pwn8vt-latest
Kubernetes Version: v1.32.12-dirty

Test results:
Expected http_code: '403' is returned,

$ oc -n openshift-monitoring exec -c prometheus prometheus-k8s-0 -- curl -k -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' https://10.xxx.0.yy:8445/metrics
403

$ oc -n openshift-monitoring exec -c prometheus prometheus-k8s-0 -- curl -k https://10.xxx.0.yy:8445/metrics
{
  "kind": "Status",
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "metadata": {},
  "status": "Failure",
  "message": "forbidden: User \"system:anonymous\" cannot get path \"/metrics\"",
  "reason": "Forbidden",
  "details": {},
  "code": 403
}

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/verified by @radeore and CI

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@openshift-cherrypick-robot: Jira Issue Verification Checks: Jira Issue OCPBUGS-77007
✔️ This pull request was pre-merge verified.
✔️ All associated pull requests have merged.
✔️ All associated, merged pull requests were pre-merge verified.

Jira Issue OCPBUGS-77007 has been moved to the MODIFIED state and will move to the VERIFIED state when the change is available in an accepted nightly payload. 🕓

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[rhrmo]

/cherry-pick release-4.18

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@rhrmo: new pull request created: #670

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Fix included in accepted release 4.19.0-0.nightly-2026-03-03-044805