Administrative authority levels

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To complete some IBM® Storage Protect tasks, you must have a specific administrative authority level. Administrators who have system authority can assign authority levels to other administrators.

On the menu bar of the Operations Center, an icon indicates the authority level of the administrator who is logged in. You can hover over the icon for a text description of the authority level.

If you have more than one authority level, the icon indicates the highest authority level that you have.

Authority levels are also called privilege classes.

System authority
Administrators who have system authority can complete any task in the Operations Center and can issue the GRANT AUTHORITY command to assign authority levels to other administrators.
Policy authority or storage authority
  • Administrators who have policy authority can manage backup and archive services.
  • Administrators who have storage authority can manage server storage.
Operator authority
Administrators who have operator authority can manage alerts and client sessions.
Client owner authority
Administrators with this authority can manage the clients for which they were granted authority. They can remotely access a client by using the web client interface, view client logs, and decommission clients.
Viewing information in the Operations Center
Any administrator who is registered on the hub server can view information in the Operations Center.
Tips:
  • If an administrator who has system authority changes your authority level while you are logged in to the Operations Center, you must log out and log back in to use the new authority level.
  • To complete a task on a spoke server, you must have the required authority level on both the hub and spoke servers.

Table 1 lists the actions that administrators with different authority levels can take in the Operations Center.

Table 1. Operations Center actions and administrative authority levels
Page or window in the Operations Center Action System authority Policy authority Storage authority Operator authority Client owner authority
Alerts Close alerts Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Assign alerts Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Alerts > Details Change the alert state Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Alerts > Configure Add alert Yes No No No No
Delete alerts Yes No No No No
Configure notification Yes No No No No
Change category Yes No No No No
Clients Add client Yes Yes No No No
Back up clients Yes Yes No No No
Configure at-risk settings Yes Yes No No No
Clients > More > Schedule Association Assign clients to schedules Yes Yes No No No
Clients > More > Decommission Decommission clients Yes Yes No No Yes
Clients > Details > Properties Change the value of certain properties Yes Yes No No No
Clients > Details > Remote Access Connect to a client for remote file-restore operations Yes No No No Yes
Clients > Details > Diagnosis View client logs Yes Yes No No Yes
Clients > Schedules Add schedule Yes Yes No No No
Clients > Schedules > Details Update schedules (edit the times and repeat frequencies) Yes Yes No No No
Reports Configure report settings Yes No No No No
Servers Connect spoke Yes No No No No
Back up server database Yes No Yes No No
Monitor spoke Yes No No No No
Servers > Details > Properties Change the value of certain properties Yes No No No No
Servers > Details > Active Tasks Cancel sessions Yes No No Yes No
Cancel processes Yes No No No No
Storage Pools Back up storage pool Yes No Yes No No
Migrate storage pool Yes No Yes No No
Reclaim storage pool Yes No Yes No No
Storage Pools > Details > Properties Change the value of certain properties Yes No Yes No No
Command Line Issue commands See the information about privilege classes for commands in the documentation.
Settings > General Change retention and at-risk settings Yes No No No No
Settings > Shared Links Edit the list of shared links Yes No No No No