Chapter 5: Management with the CLU

3.Highlight Privilege and press the space bar to toggle though the options:

Super – Allows the user full access to all functions including create and delete users and changing the settings of other users. The default “administrator” account is a Super User

Power – Allows the user to create and delete disk arrays and logical drives, change RAID levels, change stripe size

Maintenance – Allows the user to perform maintenance tasks including Rebuilding, PDM, Media Patrol and Redundancy Check

View – Allows the user to see all status and settings but not to make any changes

4.Highlight Status and press the space bar to toggle between the options:

Enabled – Allows the user to log in to the system

Disabled – Prevents the user from logging in to the system

5.Press Ctrl-A to save the settings.

Delete User

1.Highlight the user you want to delete and press the spacebar to mark it. The mark is an asterisk (*) to the left of the listing.

2.Highlight Delete Marked Users and press Enter.

3.Press Y to confirm the deletion.

Note

You cannot delete a user while you are logged in as that user.

Software Management

VTrak’s software services include:

Email

SLP (Service Location Protocol)

Webserver

Telnet

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

CIM (Common Information Model [a protocol])

Netsend

To start any of these services:

1.Highlight the service and press Enter.

2.In the Service Setting screen, highlight Start and press Enter.

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m210p, VTrak external disk array subsystem, m310p specifications

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