About Storage Navigator Operations
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Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V/VM Hitachi Storage Navigator User’s Guide
User Access Levels
To use Storage Navigator, you first need a user account. The user account of
Storage Navigator contains the following information.
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User ID
•
User type
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Password
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Operation authority
For Storage Navigator, a user account of user ID “root” is initially set. By
default, the operation authority for all functions of Storage Navigator and
program product options is given to the root user account. You cannot delete
the root user account. You may register up to 500 user accounts including the
root user account for Storage Navigator.
You have to set user ID, user type and password when you set up a user
account. An operation authority can be set for each registered user account.
To register the user account, or to set an operation authority, use the Account
window. For further information on the procedures of registering the user
account and of setting the operation authority for Storage Navigator, see
Account Window. The following sections describe the user types and the
operation authorities.
User Types
Storage Navigator provides two types of user access levels: storage
administrator and storage partition administrator. You can decide the user
type when you register the user account. The operating range of the storage
system varies by the user type, as described below.
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A storage administrator can operate the entire storage system. Only
storage administrator can perform the
Storage Device List
,
Control
Panel
,
Audit log
-related operations of Storage Navigator, and the Storage
Navigator CLI commands. The root user account, which is the default
Storage Navigator user account, is a kind of storage administrator.
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A storage partition administrator can operate a Storage Management
Logical Partition (SLPR) allocated by Storage Navigator. A storage partition
administrator cannot perform the
Storage Device List
,
Control Panel
,
Audit log
-related operations of Storage Navigator, and the Storage
Navigator CLI commands.
A storage partition administrator can use only a part of program product
options.
For further information on an SLPR or details of the program product
options that a storage partition administrator can use, see to the
Virtual
Partition Manager User's Guide
.
