Actions that are available based on role

Your IBM Spectrum Control role and product license determine the actions that are available in the product.

Users who are assigned the Administrator role or the Monitor role can use product functions. The actions that are available for each function depend on the role that is assigned to the user:

Administrator role: Users who are assigned the Administrator role have access to all monitoring and administrative actions.
Monitor role: Users who are assigned the Monitor role can view information about monitored resources and other objects such as tasks, alerts, and service classes. They can acknowledge alerts and resource statuses, open logs, and open management GUIs.

The following table outlines the actions that are available only for the Administrators role. All other actions are available to the Monitor and Administrator roles. In addition to the restrictions listed in this table, users who are assigned the Monitor role do not have access to user management functions.

Table 1. Product actions that are available only to users with the Administrator role
Function	Actions that require the Administrator role
Single dashboard view of the storage environment that you can use to manage storage systems, hypervisors, servers, and Fibre Channel fabrics.	Adding and removing resources Administering connections Scheduling data collection Changing and viewing the automated probe schedule Viewing and editing history retention settings Modifying license settings
Performance monitoring for storage systems and Fibre Channel networks.	Scheduling performance monitors Starting or stopping performance monitors
Capacity and usage monitoring of resources.	Scheduling probes Starting or stopping probes Modifying Storage Resource agents Enabling automatic zoning
Health and alerting for hypervisors, networks, servers, and storage systems.	Creating, modifying, and deleting alert policies Setting which alert policy manages a resource Adding and modifying resources for management by an alert policy Defining and modifying alert definitions Editing alert notification settings
Capacity and performance of the storage that applications, departments, and general groups use.	Creating applications, departments, and general groups Creating, modifying, and removing filters to add resources to applications Adding and removing resources in applications and general groups, directly Adding applications as members of other applications Adding departments to other departments Adding applications to departments
Storage reclamation	Viewing volumes that can be reclaimed
Roll-up reporting, in which capacity data is combined from multiple instances of IBM Spectrum® Control for reporting purposes.	Adding and removing subordinate servers Starting a probe for a subordinate server Modifying the connection information for a subordinate server
Predefined Reports Predefined capacity reports allow users to quickly create reports about capacity anomalies and shortfalls, which can be scheduled and sent by email or saved to the user's file system, or both. Predefined inventory reports allow users to quickly create reports about their storage resources, which can be scheduled and sent by email or saved to the user's file system, or both.	Creating, deleting, and editing reports Configuring the email server Emailing reports Saving reports to the file system
Custom reports From any table view in the GUI, custom reports can be created, which can be scheduled and sent by email or saved to the user's file system, or both, about capacity of storage resources, the configuration and attributes of storage resources, and the performance of storage resources.	Creating, deleting, and editing reports Configuring the email server Emailing reports Saving reports to the file system
Chargeback and consumer reports Chargeback reports show the capacity and the cost of the storage that is used by applications, departments, hypervisors, and physical servers. Consumer reports show the capacity and the cost of the block storage that is used by an application, department, hypervisor, and physical server.	Creating, deleting, and editing reports Configuring the email server Emailing reports
Capacity limits for block storage systems and pools If your company has a policy to set a limit on the capacity that is used, you can set a capacity limit. When the capacity limit is set, you can then monitor the amount of capacity that is available before the capacity limit is reached.	Setting capacity limits Defining alerts for capacity limits Removing capacity limits