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
- Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
- Select Fabric user option from the dropdown on the Home page.
- 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.
- Click the volume name seen under Resource Name.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Click the edit icon seen next to Volume Admin Control.
- Click Add to add permissions for a user or a group.
- Select user or group from the Type dropdown.
- Enter the name of the user or group to which you wish to assign the permission or permissions.
- Select the checkbox or checkboxes for the permission(s) that you wish to assign to the user or the group.
- Repeat the steps related to adding user/group and assigning permissions to them, as necessary.
- Click Save.