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Administrator (User) Security Levels and Guidelines If you are running the SANscape application within a system using the
Solaris operating environment, administrator security levels are automatically
created during the installation process. You only need to set passwords
and assign users according to the desired permission level. SANscape administrative functions require access logins and passwords
to prevent the possibility of one administrator reallocating or removing
storage resources belonging to other clients and hosts without authorization. You assign separate passwords for the three levels of security for the
SANscape program. You do this by setting up three users on the agents
that have storage devices that are managed by SANscape. These three users
are automatically added during the installation of the SANscape Agent. The SANscape security levels must have these exact names: ssmon Represents the monitoring level of the software. ssadmin Represents the administration level of the software and provides access
to the Rebuild, Parity Check, and Schedule Parity Check functions, as
well as monitoring. ssconfig Represents the configuration level of the software and gives the installer
direct access to the configuration functions and all other related aspects
of the program. These names are required for the three security levels. After installation,
you must assign a password to each security name.
ssmon, ssadmin, and ssconfig are logins that correspond
only to security levels within SANscape. For the UNIX OS, the default
shell for these accounts is assigned to /bin/false to prevent the
user IDs from being used for interactive logins. SANscape can be set up so that monitoring does not require users to provide
the ssmon password. This is accomplished by selecting the Auto
Discovery option when the servers are added to the Managed Servers
List at the SANscape Console. You can set up these three logins and
passwords locally on each server. (The accounts can have different passwords
on each server, if desired.)
Once you have set up these three logins on the agents to be managed,
the system administrator typically provides user access to SANscape by
assigning employees appropriate passwords, which are based on the level
of security required to complete tasks. For example, everyone who has
administration privileges on a particular server would be assigned the
same password that was established for the user ssadmin.
NOTE: To add servers to the Managed Servers List, refer
to Adding a Server.
Creating Passwords and Permissions passwd <user-name>
NOTE: Do not change the permissions and group ownership of svrlist.dat
after adding all agents that are being monitored.
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