HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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• The Role Name and Description boxes do not accept special characters, except spaces and the
following characters: $, -, ^, ., and _
• Only users belonging to the Domain Administrator role can add roles.
To add a role:
1. Access Storage Essentials through one of the menu options, such as Options > Storage Essentials
> Email Settings.
2. In the upper-right corner, click Security > Roles.
3. Click New Role.
4. In the Role Name box, enter a name for the role. For example: Quality Assurance.
The name can contain spaces, but it cannot be longer than 256 characters.
5. In the Description box, enter a description for the role; for example: Role for those in quality
assurance.
The description cannot be more than 1024 characters.
6. Select an access level for each element type:
• Full Control — Lets you view and modify the record for the element (Asset Management tab)
and perform provisioning.
• Element Control — Lets you view and modify the record for the element (Asset Management
tab).
• View — Lets you view element properties.
See ”Options for Restricting a Role” on page 140.
7. Select the features you want a user to be able to access.
See ”Management Server Components” on page 6 for more information about these features.
8. Click OK.
Editing Roles
The software lets you modify the default roles and/or the roles you have created. See ”About
Security for the Management Server” on page 137 for more information about roles and
organizations.
Keep in mind the following:
• Only users belonging to the Domain Administrator role can modify roles.
• Domain administrators can change the user names and roles of other domain administrators,
but they cannot modify their own user name and roles while logged into the management
server.
• After you click OK in the Edit Role window, any users assigned to the role you edited are logged
out of the management server. Users see the changes when they log back into the management
server.
• The Role Name box does not accept special characters, except spaces and the following
characters: $, -, ^, ., and _
To edit a role: