When using the graphical user interface or command line
interface of a Tivoli® Storage Manager client,
you can log on using a node name and password or administrative
user ID and password.
The client prompts for your user ID and compares it to the configured
node name. If they match, the client attempts to authenticate the
user ID as a node name. If the authentication fails or if the user
ID does not match the configured node name, the client attempts to
authenticate the user ID as an administrative user ID.
To use an administrative user ID with any of the backup-archive
clients, the user ID must have one of the following authorities:
- System privilege
- Authority over the entire system. An administrator with system
privilege can perform any administrative task.
- Policy privilege
- Authority over the node policy domain. Allows an administrator
to manage policy objects, register client nodes, and schedule client
operations for client nodes.
- Client owner
- Authority over the registered Tivoli Storage Manager client
node. You can access the client through the Web client or backup-archive
client. You own the data and have a right to physically gain access
to the data remotely. You can back up and restore files on the same
or different system, and you can delete file spaces or archive data.
- Client access
- To use the Web Client to back up and restore files on a remote
client system, you must have an administrative user ID with client
access authority over the node name for the remote client system.
If you do not want Tivoli Storage Manager administrators
with client access authority over your node name to be able to back
up and restore files on your system, specify the revokeremoteaccess option
in your client options file.
Client access authority only
allows Tivoli Storage Manager administrators
to back up and restore files on remote systems. They do not have physical
access to the data. That is, they cannot restore the data belonging
to the remote system to their own systems. To restore data belonging
to a remote system to your own system, you must possess at least client
owner authority.
To determine what authority you have, you can use either of the
following methods:
- From the main Tivoli Storage Manager GUI
window, select File → Connection Information.
- Use the Tivoli Storage Manager server
QUERY ADMIN command from the administrative command-line client. See
the appropriate Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator's
Reference for more information about the QUERY ADMIN command.