Managing Users, User Groups, And Accounts - Hitachi VSP G200 System Administration Manual

Managing users, user groups, and accounts

This chapter describes how to define the users and user groups that will
manage your storage system.
User administration overview
Read and understand the following information before managing users or
user groups.
• When a user is assigned to multiple user groups, the user has the
• If a user has All Resource Groups Assigned set to Yes, the user can access
• For user groups whose roles are other than Storage Administrator, All
Related tasks
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Workflow for creating and managing user accounts
Administrators use Device Manager - Storage Navigator to create accounts
for all users. The following steps show a basic workflow:
• If an authentication server is used, connect the management clients to it.
• If an authentication server is not used, use a password dedicated to
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permissions of all the roles in each user group that are enabled on the
resource groups assigned to each user group.
all the resources in the storage system. For example, if a user is a security
administrator and a storage administrator and has all resource groups
assigned, the user can edit the storage for all the resources.
If this is an issue, the recommended solution is to register two user
accounts in the storage system and use the two accounts for different
purposes.
○ A security administrator user account that has All Resource Groups
Assigned set to Yes.
○ A storage administrator user account that has only some of the resource
groups assigned.
Resource Groups Assigned is automatically set to Yes. If you delete all the
roles except Storage Administrator, reassign resource groups to the user
group because All Resource Groups Assigned is automatically set to No.
Changing assigned resource groups
An authentication server allows users to log in to Device Manager -
Storage Navigator with the same password as the one used for other
applications in a system.
Device Manager - Storage Navigator to log in. Whether to use the
authentication server can be specified for each user.
Setting up authentication and authorization on page 224
information and instructions.
Managing user groups on page 159
and roles you can assign new or existing users.
on page 166
User administration
to understand the user groups
for