Each user of the management GUI must
provide a user name and a password to sign on. Each user also has an associated role such as
monitor, copy operator, service, administrator, or security administrator. These roles are defined
at the clustered system level. For example, a user can be the administrator for one system, but the
security administrator for another system.
- Security Administrator
- Users can manage all
functions of the system, including managing users, user groups, and
user authentication. Security-administrator-role users can run any
system commands from the command-line interface (CLI). However, they
cannot run the sainfo and satask commands from the CLI. Only the superuser ID can run sainfo and satask commands.
- Administrator
- Users can manage all functions
of the system except those functions that manage users, user groups,
and authentication. Administrator-role users can run the system commands
that the security-administrator-role users can run from the CLI except
for commands that deal with users, user groups, and authentication.
- Restricted Administrator
- Users can perform the
same tasks and run most of the same commands as administrator-role
users. However, users with the Restricted Administrator
role are not authorized to run the rmvdisk, rmvdiskhostmap, rmhost, or rmmdiskgrp commands. Support personnel can be assigned
this role to help resolve errors and fix problems.
- Copy Operator
- Users can start and stop all existing
FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror relationships. Copy-operator-role
users can run the system commands that administrator-role users can
run that deal with FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Global Mirror relationships.
- Monitor
- Users have access to all system viewing
actions. Monitor-role users cannot change the state of the system
nor change the resources that the system manages. Monitor-role users
can access all information-related GUI functions and commands, back
up configuration data, and change their own passwords.
- Service
- Users can set the time and date on the
system, delete dump files, add and delete nodes,apply service, and shut down the system. Users can also complete the same tasks
as users in the monitor role.
- VASA Provider
- Users with this role can manage VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes.
User groups
Roles apply
to both local and remote users on the
system and are based on the user group to which the user belongs.A local user can belong only to a single group; therefore,
the role of a local user is defined by the single group to which that user belongs. Users with the Security Administrator
role can organize users of the system by role through user groups.
The following user groups are configured by default.
- SecurityAdmin
- Users access all functions on the
system, including managing users, user groups, and user authentication.
- Administrator
- Users have access to all functions
on the system except those functions that deal with managing users,
user groups, and authentication.
- RestrictedAdmin
- Users can perform the same tasks
and run most of the same commands as administrator-role users. However, users with the Restricted Administrator role
are not authorized to run the rmvdisk, rmvdiskhostmap, rmhost, or rmmdiskgrp commands. Support personnel can be assigned
this role to help resolve errors and fix problems.
- CopyOperator
- Users manage FlashCopy, Metro Mirror,
and Global Mirror relationships.
- Service
- Users can set the time and date on the
system, delete dump files, add and delete nodes, apply service, and
shut down the system. Users can also complete the same tasks as users
in the monitor role.
- Monitor
- Users can view objects and system configuration
but cannot configure, modify, or manage the system or its resources.
- VASA Provider
- Users with this role can manage VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes.