Setting up and managing user accounts

After Device Manager - Storage Navigator has been set up on the SVP of your storage system, and the management clients are set up, you can create user accounts for Device Manager - Storage Navigator users and define their roles.

Parent Topic

• Device Manager - Storage Navigator

  Device Manager - Storage Navigator (HDvM - SN) provides a unified GUI for managing and optimizing the storage systems. HDvM - SN communicates directly with the storage system using a LAN to obtain storage system configuration and status information and send user-requested commands to the storage system.

Child Topics

• Workflow for creating and managing user accounts
• Setting up authentication and authorization
• Creating configuration files

  Authentication servers and authorization servers must be configured using configuration files. Configuration files can be created for LDAP, RADIUS, and Kerberos authentication protocols.

• Managing user groups

  You can use the Device Manager - Storage Navigator to view existing user groups, and to create, modify, or delete them.

• Managing user accounts
• Changing the user group configuration
• Account lock policy
• Session timeout