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

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• Users created in HP Systems Insight Manager are automatically placed in the SIMViewOnly
role. This role does not allow users to access any of the features listed in Table 14 on
page 138. See ”Adding Users” on page 144 for more information.
• Users with access to Global Reporter can view all the elements throughout the enterprise,
including those on the server running Global Reporter. Grant access to Global Reporter only to
those, who should be allowed to view all elements. You may want to disable this functionality
for some users.
• Only users belonging to the Domain Administrators role can add, modify, and delete users,
roles, and organizations.
• The domain administrator can only edit active organizations.
• 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. Domain administrators can also edit their full name, e-mail, phone, and other details, as
well assign and un-assign any organization.
• If the System Configuration option is selected for a role, all users assigned to that role will have
administration capabilities, as shown in the following list. If you do not want users belonging to
that role to have those capabilities, do not assign the System Configuration option:
• Schedule discovery
• Find the CIM log level
• Save log files, e-mail log files
• Save the database, backup the database, and schedule a database backup
• Configure Event Manager, File System Viewer and Performance Manager
• Configure reports and traps
• Set up the management server to send e-mail
Roles also restrict access to element properties, element records, and Provisioning Manager, as
shown in the following table.
Table 15 Default Role Privileges with Elements
Role Application Host Switch Storage
System
Tape
Library
Others
CIO View View View View View View
Domain
Administrator
Full Control Full
Control
Full
Control
Full Control Full
Control
Full
Control
Storage
Administrator
View View Full
Control
Full Control Full
Control
Full
Control
Server
Administrator
View Full
Control
View View View View