Planning for administrator roles
Define the authority levels that you want to assign to administrators who have access to the IBM Storage Protect solution.
You can assign one of the following levels of authority to administrators:
- System
- Administrators with system authority have the highest level of authority. Administrators with this level of authority can complete any task. They can manage all policy domains and storage pools, and grant authority to other administrators.
- Policy
- Administrators who have policy authority can manage all of the tasks that are related to policy management. This privilege can be unrestricted, or can be restricted to specific policy domains.
- Storage
- Administrators who have storage authority can allocate and control storage resources for the server.
- Operator
- Administrators who have operator authority can control the immediate operation of the server and the availability of storage media such as tape libraries and drives.
The scenarios in Table 1 provide examples about why you might want to assign varying levels of authority so that
administrators can perform tasks:
| Scenario | Type of administrator ID to set up |
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| An administrator at a small company manages the server and is responsible for all server activities. |
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| An administrator for multiple servers also manages the overall system. Several other administrators manage their own storage pools. |
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| An administrator manages 2 servers. Another person helps with the administration tasks. Two assistants are responsible for helping to ensure that important systems are backed up. Each assistant is responsible for monitoring the scheduled backups on one of the IBM Storage Protect servers. |
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