4 Managing Security

IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, role-based security may not be available. See the “List of Features” to determine if you have access to role-based security. The “List of Features” is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).

This chapter describes the following:

•”Managing User Accounts” on page 131

•”Managing Roles” on page 137

•”Managing Organizations” on page 139

•”Changing the Password of System Accounts” on page 144

About the Security for the Management Server

The management server offers security based on roles and organizations. Role-based security determines access to certain functionality depending on the user account assigned to a role. Organizations determine if you can modify an element type, such as hosts. The management server ships with the Everything organization, which lets you modify all element types.

See the following topics for more information:

•”About Roles” on page 125

•”About Organizations” on page 128

•”Planning Your Hierarchy” on page 131

•”Naming Organizations” on page 131

About Roles

The management server ships with several predefined roles that are listed in the following table. These roles determine which components of the software a user can access.

For example, users assigned to the Help Desk role have access to Application Viewer and Event Manager, but not to System Manager, Provisioning Manager, Policy Manager, Backup Manager, and Reporting. Likewise, users assigned to the domain administrator role have access to all of the features, as shown in the following table.

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