Creating user capabilities

Create role-based access users with different capabilities on the Ceph dashboard.

Before you begin

Before you begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites in place:

  • A running IBM Storage Ceph cluster.

  • Dashboard is installed.

  • Admin-level access to the dashboard.

About this task

For details on different user capabilities, see User capabilities and Access capabilities.

Procedure

  1. From the dashboard navigation, go to Administration > Ceph Users.
  2. Click Create.
  3. Fill in the Create User form.
    1. User Entity: Enter as TYPE.ID
    2. Entity: This can be mon, mgr, osd, or mds.
    3. Entity Capabilities: Enter the capabilities that you can to provide to the user. For example, allow * and profile crash are some of the capabilities that can be assigned to the client.
      Note: You can add more entities to the user, based on the requirement.

    Create user capabilities
  4. Click Create User.
    A notification displays that the user is created successfully.