NAS Volume Setting

Volume Administrator Allowed to

 

Change Setting?

 

 

Data reduction

Yes

NAS volume space settings and alert thresholds

Yes

CIFS shares and NFS exports

Yes

Snapshots and snapshot schedules

Yes

Restore NAS volume from snapshot

Yes

Restore NAS volume configuration

Yes

Quotas

Yes

NAS volume clones

No

Replication

No

Viewing Administrators

View the current list of administrator accounts.

1.Click the System tab on the left.

2.Click the Mail & Admins tab on the top.

The administrators are displayed in the Administrator Users pane.

Adding an Administrator

Add an administrator account to manage the FluidFS cluster using the FluidFS Manager Client and CLI. You can only define other administrators with permission levels that are hierarchically lower than your own.

NOTE: Before you can create a local administrator, create a local user that becomes an administrator.

1.Click the System tab on the left.

2.Click the Mail & Admins tab on the top.

3.In the Administrator Users pane, click .

4.Click New Administrator User.

The New NAS Administrator dialog box appears.

5.Select a local or remote user to become an administrator.

a)Click the […] button to the right of the NAS administrator username field. The User Browser dialog box appears.

b)From the Domain name dropdown menu, select the domain to which the user is assigned.

c)In the Starts with field, type either the full name of the user or the beginning of the user name.

d)Click Display.

e)Select a user from the search results and click OK.

6.In the Email address field, type the user’s email address.

7.Select the permission level of the administrator:

– NAS Cluster Administrator: The administrator can manage any aspect of the FluidFS cluster.

– NAS Volume Administrator: The administrator can only view the FluidFS cluster configuration and manage the NAS volume(s) to which they are assigned.

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Dell NX3500, NX3610, NX3600 manual Viewing Administrators, Adding an Administrator

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