Administrator Guide

The Select Storage Center dialog box opens.
6 Select the checkbox for each Storage Center to which you want to apply the settings.
7 Click OK.
Conguring a Storage Center to Inherit Settings
A Storage Center can be congured to inherit settings from another Storage Center to save time and ensure that Storage Centers are
congured consistently.
Prerequisite
The Storage Center must be added to Storage Manager using a Storage Center user with the Administrator privilege.
About this task
NOTE: For user interface reference information, click Help
Steps
1 If the Storage Manager Client is connected to a Data Collector, select a Storage Center from the Storage view.
2 In the Summary tab, click Inherit Settings.
The Inherit Settings wizard opens.
3 Select the Storage Center from which you want to inherit settings, then click Next. The wizard advances to the next page.
4 Select the checkbox for each category of settings that you want to inherit. For user interface reference information, click Help.
5 Click Finish.
• If you modied passwords for the SupportAssist proxy, Secure Console proxy, or SMTP server (or if passwords are not
congured), the dialog box closes.
• If a password for the SupportAssist proxy, Secure Console proxy, or SMTP server was congured previously and not modied, you
are prompted to reenter the required passwords.
6 Type the required passwords.
Managing Storage Center Users and Groups
Storage Center users have access to folders, volumes, views, and commands depending on their privilege level and the user groups to
which they belong. User accounts can be created locally and/or exist externally in a directory service.
User Privilege Levels
Each user is assigned a single privilege level. Storage Center has three levels of user privilege.
Table 11.
Storage Center User Privilege Levels
Privilege Level Allowed Access
Administrator Read and write access to the entire Storage Center (no restrictions). All Administrators have the same predened
privileges. Only Administrators can manage users and user groups.
Volume Manager Read and write access to the folders associated with the assigned user groups. Users with this privilege level can
create volumes in the allowed volume folders and map them to existing servers in the allowed server folders.
Reporter Read-only access to the folders associated with the assigned user groups.
User Groups
User groups grant access to volume, server, and disk folders.
• Users with the Administrator privilege have access to all folders and cannot be added to user groups.
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