HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 137
4 Managing Security
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, role-based security may not be available. See the “List
of Features” to determine if you have access to role-based security. The “List of Features” is
accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
This chapter describes the following:
• ”Managing User Accounts” on page 143
• ”Managing Roles” on page 149
• ”Managing Organizations” on page 152
• ”Changing the Password of System Accounts” on page 157
• ”Using Active Directory/LDAP for Authentication” on page 158
About the Security for the Management Server
The management server offers security based on roles and organizations. Role-based security
determines access to certain functionality depending on the user account assigned to a role.
Organizations determine if you can modify an element type, such as hosts. The management server
ships with the Everything organization, which lets you modify all element types.
See the following topics for more information:
• ”About Roles” on page 137
• ”About Organizations” on page 140
• ”Planning Your Hierarchy” on page 143
• ”Naming Organizations” on page 143
About Roles
The management server ships with several predefined roles that are listed in the following table.
These roles determine which components of the software a user can access.
For example, users assigned to the Help Desk role have access to Application Viewer and Event
Manager, but not to System Manager, Provisioning Manager, Policy Manager, Backup Manager,
and Reporting. Likewise, users assigned to the domain administrator role have access to all of the
features, as shown in the following table.