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Administrator (User) Security Levels and Guidelines 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. 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. SANscape can be set up so that monitoring does not require users to type the ssmon password.
This is done 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 the 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.
Global Passwords on Multiple Servers If you have a large network and do not want to set up logins individually,
and it is acceptable to have the same passwords on multiple servers, you
can establish the three logins on a domain server under Windows. As a
result, all other servers within the Windows domain have access to the
three logins with their respective passwords. Creating Windows NT Users
Refer to your NT documentation for more information. Creating Windows 2000 Users
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