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Chapter 3
Setting up the Spheras Storage Director Client
This section describes the security access levels, passwords, and method to sign onto the Spheras Storage Director
Client. The process to add Servers and create Server Groups is also described.
3.1
Security access levels
The Spheras Storage Director Client authenticates with the Spheras Storage Director server. This authentication is based
on user IDs and passwords that have been defined on the servers that host the Spheras Storage Director Server. The user
IDs and passwords are defined on each server through the operating system's user management services. Said another
way: the Spheras Storage Director uses server-level authentication, not domain-level authentication. Therefore, each
server must have its own accounts.
Note:
The user IDs and passwords must be defined using only standard English-language characters.
The Spheras Storage Director Client imposes no limit on the password length, however a password must be used.
Spheras Storage Director supports three access levels. On Windows systems, the groups are User, Power Users, and
Administrators. On Unix systems, the groups are root, adm, and users.
Note:
You can change the default values via the Server Properties dialog box.
User / users:
PowerUsers / adm:
Administrators / root:
3.2
Passwords
A password must be established for each user on the server host. Passwords can be any valid English-language
characters that the server supports. Passwords are encrypted when transmitted across the network. The Spheras Storage
Director Client imposes no limit on the password length.
Users with Administrator access are prompted to enter their password prior to applying changes that result in loss of data
or loss of data availability.
3.3
Logging on to Spheras Storage Director
The Spheras Storage Director Client login dialog opens automatically upon Spheras Storage Director Client startup.
When a user attempts to access remote server resources, the client automatically attempts a logon to that server by using
the last successful user name and password. If the automatic logon attempt fails, you are prompted to enter a name and
password to log onto the remote server. If you try to logon to a server on which you are already logged in, a warning
appears. If you choose to continue the logon, it is treated as a logoff, followed by a log on.
The Spheras Storage Director client imposes no limit to the number of failed login attempts.
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Allows viewing of the controller configuration, event logs, and long operation status (for
example, the status of rebuilds, initializations, consistency checks, and capacity expansion).
In essence, Users have Read-only privileges.
Allows viewing of all the information that Spheras Storage Director provides. In addition,
these users with this access level can define hot spares; start rebuilds, and run consistency
checks.
Allows all the capabilities of User and Power User plus all of the Spheras Storage Director
features that manipulate controllers and RAID subsystems.
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