Configuring Data Access Control for Volume

Configure access to data on a volume.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be met before attempting to configure data access control for a volume.
  • The user or group, for which you wish to assign permissions, must exist for the fabric.
  • You must have be a fabric user or fabric manager to configure data access for the volume.

About this task

Configure or control access to data on a volume.

There are three user types that can be assigned access to data on a volume. The user types are as follows.
  • Public - Public refers to all users.
  • User - A user is an individual user that uses the Data Fabric UI.
  • Group - Groups are collection of users that are categorized based on a commonality such as department or location.

You can assign read or write permissions to public or to specific users and/or groups. By default, read and write permissions are assigned to all users.

When a read or write permission is assigned to public, it implies that all users and groups are able to read data from and write data to the volume in question.
NOTE
A write permission assigned to a user type implies that the respective user type has both read and write permissions on the volume.

If you wish to assign read or write permission to specific users and/or groups, you must first remove any permission assigned to the public user type. You cannot assign read or write permissions to specific users and/or groups when the respective permissions are assigned to public.

To configure data access control for a volume, follow these steps:

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Click the All resources icon on the left pane, click the table view icon.
  3. Select the Resource details check box.
  4. In the tabular list of fabrics, click the down arrow for the fabric that contains the volume to edit.
  5. Click the volume name seen under Resource Name.
  6. Click the Settings tab.
  7. Click the Edit icon seen next to Data Access Control.
  8. Click Add to add permissions for a user or a group.
  9. Select user or group from the Type dropdown.
  10. Enter the name of the user or group to which you wish to assign the permission or permissions.
  11. Select read and/or write checkbox depending on the permission you wish to assign to the user or the group.
  12. Repeat the steps related to adding user/group and assigning permissions to them, as necessary.
  13. Click Save.

Results

Permissions are assigned to the respective users and/or groups.