Administrator Guide

• NAS Volume Administrator: The following table summarizes which settings a volume administrator can change for the NAS
volumes to which they are assigned. They can also view, but not change, the rest of the FluidFS cluster conguration.
NAS Volume Setting Volume Administrator Allowed to Change
Setting?
NAS volume name Yes
NAS volume folder to which the NAS volume is assigned Yes
Access time granularity Yes
Permissions interoperability Yes
Report zero disk usage Yes
Data reduction Yes
NAS volume space settings and alert thresholds Yes
SMB shares and NFS exports Yes
Snapshots and snapshot schedules Yes
Restore NAS volume from snapshot Yes
Restore NAS volume conguration Yes
Quotas Yes
NAS volume clones No
Replication No
View Administrators
View the current list of administrator accounts.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab, and select Maintenance.
3. In the right pane, click the Mail & Administrators tab. The administrators are displayed.
Add an Administrator
Add an administrator account to manage the FluidFS cluster using the Dell Storage Manager Client and CLI. You can only dene
other administrators with permission levels that are hierarchically lower than your own.
Prerequisite
Before you can create a local administrator, you must create a local user that will become an administrator.
Steps
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab, and select Maintenance.
3. In the right pane, click the Mail & Administrators tab.
4. In the Administrators section, click Create Administrator User. The Create Administrator User dialog box appears.
5. Select a user to become an administrator:
a. Click Select User. The Select User dialog box appears.
b. From the Domain drop-down menu, select the domain to which the user belongs.
c. In the User eld, type either the full name of the user or the beginning of the user name.
d. (Optional) Congure the remaining user search options as needed. These options are described in the online help.
To change the maximum number of search results to return, select the maximum number of search results from the Max
Results drop-down menu.
e. Click Search.
f. Select a user from the search results.
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