HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.2 administrator guide (5697-0016, May 2009)

68 Managing user accounts
account using the userConfig command to add this permission to a user account. For clarity, this
permission has been added to Table 8 which describes the Fabric OS predefined roles.
Admin Domain considerations: Legacy users with no Admin Domain specified, whose current role is admin
will have access to AD0 through 255 (physical fabric admin); otherwise, they will have access to AD0
only.
If some Admin Domains have been defined for the user and all of them are inactive, the user will not be
allowed to log in to any switch in the fabric. If no Home Domain is specified for a user, the system provides
a default Home Domain.
The default home domain for the predefined account is AD0. For user-defined accounts, the default Home
Domain is the Admin Domain in the user’s Admin Domain list with the lowest ID.
Role permissions
Table 9 describes the types of permissions that are assigned to roles.
Table 8 Fabric OS roles
Role name Fabric OS
version
Duties Description
Admin All All administration All administrative commands
excluding chassis-specific commands
BasicSwitchAdmin 5.2.0 and later Restricted switch
administration
Mostly monitoring with limited
switch (local) commands
Chassis-role
permission
6.2.0 Chassis-specific
configuration
A role-permission applied only to the
user account through the
userConfig command.
FabricAdmin 5.2.0 and later Fabric and switch
administration
All switch and fabric commands,
excluding user management and
Admin Domains commands.
Operator 5.2.0 and later General switch
administration
Routine switch maintenance
commands.
SecurityAdmin 5.3.0 and later Security
administration
All switch security and user
management functions.
SwitchAdmin 5.0.0 and later Local switch
administration
Most switch (local) commands,
excluding security, user
management, and zoning
commands.
User All Monitoring only Non-administrative use, such as
monitoring system activity.
ZoneAdmin 5.2.0 and later Zone administration Zone management commands only.
Table 9 Permission types
Abbreviation Definition Description
O Observe The user can run commands using options that display information only,
such as running userConfig --show -a to show all users on a
switch.
M Modify The user can run commands using options that create, change, and
delete objects on the system, such as running userConfig
--change username -r rolename to change a user’s role.
OM Observe and
Modify
The user can run commands using both observe and modify
options; if a role has modify permissions, it almost always has
observe.
N None The user is not allowed to run commands in a given category.