User Groups

The administrator creates Device Manager - Storage Navigator user accounts and adds each user to a built-in group. Registered users are able to use the Device Manager - Storage Navigator privileges that are assigned to the user group(s) to which each user belongs. A user can belong to one or more groups.

Roles and user groups

The operations allowed to users depends on the roles assigned to the user groups . Roles are not set in each user account, but in each user group. There are two ways to change the operations that are allowed to users.

Moving the users to another user group.

See Changing user permissions for more information.

Changing the roles assigned to the user group to which the user belongs.

See Changing user group permissions for more information.

Resource group and user groups

The resources that users can manipulate depend on the resource groups. The resource groups are not assigned to users but to user groups. There are two ways to change the resources that are allowed to users.

Moving users to another user group.

See Changing user permissions for more information.

Changing the resource groups assigned to the user group where the user belongs.

See Changing resource groups assigned to a user group for more information.

For details about resource groups, see the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G200, G400, G600 Provisioning Guide.

User registering example

The setting operations that affect the security of the whole system must be done by the administrator.

The setting operations on the resource group 10 must be done by user A.

The setting operations on the resource group 20 must be done by user B.

To implement the above configuration, assign the users to the user groups as shown below.

User registration example


User	User group to be registered	Roles to be assigned to the user group	Resource group to be assigned to user group
Administrator	user group 1	Security Administrator (View & Modify)	All Resource Groups Assigned¹
User A	user group 10	Storage Administrator²	Resource group 10
User B	user group 20	Storage Administrator²	Resource group 20
Notes: For the user group that is assigned the Security Administrator role, All Resource Groups Assigned is automatically set to Yes. There are a few types of storage administrators. See Roles and Capabilities for more information.