HP StorageWorks XP Provisioning Manager User Guide (December 2005)

Overview of HP StorageWorks XP Provisioning Manager 19
System
Administrator
Storage
Administrator
Guest Local System
Administrator
Local Storage
Administrator
Local Guest
Viewing storage
pools or listing
volumes
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Allocating or
unallocating
volumes
Y Y -- Y Y --
Moving volumes Y -- -- Y -- --
Viewing hosts or
updating
information
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Viewing file
systems
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Creating,
expanding, or
deleting file
systems
Y Y -- Y Y --
Viewing device
files
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Creating or
deleting device
files
Y Y -- Y Y --
Viewing
provisioning plans
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Adding
provisioning plans
Y Y -- Y Y --
Manipulating
provisioning plans
Y Y -- Y Y --
Viewing
transaction logs
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Restarting
cancelled
processes
Y Y -- Y Y --
NOTE: For provisioning plans, you can set Public or Private as an attribute indicating the security level as
well as the access permissions. The operation permission depends on the combination of the security level
and the access permission. For details, see chapter 8, Managing Provisioning Plans.
1-6 Manipulating Storage Subsystems
This section provides examples of storage subsystem and host management operations that you can perform
after installing Provisioning Manager.
Figure 1-5 shows the operation flow as a result of using Provisioning Manager to manipulate storage
subsystems.