Configuring Volume Administration Settings

Configure volume access control for various user types.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites must be met before you can configure volume administration settings for users and groups.

  • You must have be a fabric manager to perform the operation.
  • The users and groups must have been created before you can assign various volume-related permissions.

About this task

You can assign various permissions related to a volume to specific users and/or groups.

The following permissions with respect to a volume can be assigned to one or more users and/or groups.

  • Edit permission
  • Admin permission to manage access control to volume and data on the volume
  • Restore and mirror permission
  • Delete permission
  • Full control, which means, all the aforementioned permissions.

    Follow the steps given below to configure volume administration settings.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Select Fabric user option from the dropdown on the Home page.
  3. Click the Table view icon on the Resources card. In the tabular list of fabrics, click the down arrow for the fabric that contains the volume.
  4. Click the volume name seen under Resource Name.
  5. Click the Settings tab.
  6. Click the edit icon seen next to Volume Admin Control.
  7. Click Add to add permissions for a user or a group.
  8. Select user or group from the Type dropdown.
  9. Enter the name of the user or group to which you wish to assign the permission or permissions.
  10. Select the checkbox or checkboxes for the permission(s) that you wish to assign to the user or the group.
  11. Repeat the steps related to adding user/group and assigning permissions to them, as necessary.
  12. Click Save.

Results

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