IBM HPSS manual SSM User Authorization in the Hpss Management Guide

Changes since 5.1	Server	GUI	ADM
The SSM client script options for connecting to the System Manager	n	n	n
across a Virtual Private Network connection (VPN) have changed. See the
-p and -h options on the hpssgui and hpssadm man pages.
The SSM client script option for using ports exempted by the network	n	n	n
administrator as firewall exceptions has changed; see the -n option on the
hpssadm/hpssgui man pages.
The port on which the System Manager will listen may be controlled by
setting the $HPSS_SSM_SERVER_LISTEN_PORT environment variable.
The default setting is 0 (zero) which means that the port will be chosen by
the RPC portmapper. See Section 3.3.6:Using SSM Through a Firewall,
of the HPSS Management Guide.
Access to port 88 is needed for Kerberos authentication and access to port	n	n	n
111 is needed if the RPC portmapper is needed to find the System
Manager.
The ssmuser.config file provided in HPSS 5.1 is no longer available. In	n	n	n
6.2, all authorized SSM users and their privilege levels are defined in the
DB2 user acl AUTHZACL table. See Section 3.3.2.1: hpssuser Utility and
Section 3.3.2.2: SSM User Authorization in the HPSS Management Guide
for details.
SSM now represents the three basic Core Server volume structures, the		n	n
physical volume, virtual volume, and storage map, as a single combined
Core Server volume structure.
Access to the delog utility via the SSM GUI, deferred in 5.1, has now been		n
permanently retired.
The ability to broadcast messages to other SSM GUI users is not yet		n
available.
The SSM clients can specify the number of items to display for the Alarms		n	n
and Events list. See the -N option on the hpssadm/hpssgui man page and
Section 9.6: Managing SSM Alarms and Events in the HPSS Management
Guide.
The SSM clients keep an internal cached copy of the Alarms and Events		n	n
list which is maintained by regular polling requests to the System
Manager. Each polling request returns only “new” messages, those which
have not already been retrieved by the SSM client in a previous polling
request. If there are no new messages in the System Manager log cache,
no messages are returned. This will help performance of the display of
this window. See the -A, -G and -N options of the hpssadm/hpssgui man
pages and Section 9.6.5: Controlling SSM Log Message Handling in the
HPSS Management Guide.
The ability to see which users are logged into SSM, referred to in HPSS		n	n
4.5 as a list of SSM "consoles", was not yet available in 5.1. It is now
available in 6.2 as part of the System Manager Statistics window from both
the hpssgui and hpssadm.

HPSS Installation Guide	July 2008
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