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OneFS Web Administration Guide
OneFS Event Reference Guide

OneFS Web Administration GuideThe OneFS Web Administration Guide describes how to activate licenses, configure network interfaces, manage the file system, provision block storage, run system jobs, protect data, back up the cluster, set up storage pools, establish quotas, secure access, migrate data, integrate with other applications, and monitor PowerScale clusters.
- About this guideThis guide describes how the PowerScale OneFS web administration interface provides access to cluster configuration, management, and monitoring functionality.
- Scale-out NAS overviewThe scale-out NAS storage platform combines modular hardware with unified software to harness unstructured data. Powered by the OneFS operating system, a cluster delivers a scalable pool of storage with a global namespace.
- Where to go for support This topic contains resources for getting answers to questions about PowerScale products.
- PowerScale scale-out NASPowerScale OneFS combines the three layers of storage architecture—file system, volume manager, and data protection—into a scale-out NAS cluster.
- General cluster administration
- Access zones
- Authentication
- Administrative roles and privileges
  - Role-based accessYou can assign role-based access to delegate administrative tasks to selected users.
  - RolesYou can permit and limit access to administrative areas of your cluster on a per-user basis through roles. OneFS includes several built-in administrator roles with predefined sets of privileges that cannot be modified. You can also create custom roles and assign privileges.
    - Custom rolesCustom roles supplement built-in roles.
    - Built-in rolesBuilt-in roles are included in OneFS and have been configured with the most likely privileges necessary to perform common administrative functions. You cannot modify the list of privileges assigned to each built-in role; however, you can assign users and groups to built-in roles.
      - SecurityAdmin built-in roleThe SecurityAdmin built-in role enables security configuration on the cluster, including authentication providers, local users and groups, and role membership.
      - SystemAdmin built-in roleThe SystemAdmin built-in role enables administration of all cluster configuration that is not specifically handled by the SecurityAdmin role.
      - AuditAdmin built-in roleThe AuditAdmin built-in role enables you to view all system configuration settings.
      - BackupAdmin built-in roleThe BackupAdmin built-in role enables backup and restore of files from /ifs.
      - VMwareAdmin built-in roleThe VMwareAdmin built-in role enables remote administration of storage needed by VMware vCenter.
  - PrivilegesPrivileges permit users to complete tasks on a cluster.
  - Managing rolesYou can view, add, or remove members of any role. Except for built-in roles, whose privileges you cannot modify, you can add or remove OneFS privileges on a role-by-role basis.
  - TLS certificate data exampleTLS certificate renewal or replacement requires you to provide data such as a fully qualified domain name and a contact email address.
- Identity management
- Home directoriesWhen you create a local user, OneFS automatically creates a home directory for the user.
- Data access controlOneFS supports two types of permissions data on files and directories that control who has access: Windows-style access control lists (ACLs) and POSIX mode bits (UNIX permissions).
- File sharingYou can access files and directories using SMB for Windows file sharing, NFS for Unix file sharing, secure shell (SSH), FTP, and HTTP.
- File filteringFile filtering enables you to allow or deny file writes based on file type.
- Auditing
- Snapshots
- Deduplication with SmartDedupe
- Data replication with SyncIQ
- Data layout with FlexProtect
- NDMP backup
- File retention with SmartLock
- Protection domains
- Data-at-rest encryption
- S3 Support
- SmartQuotas
- Storage pools
- Pool-based tree reporting in FSAnalyze (FSA)
- Job management
- Networking
- Partitioned Performance Performing for NFS
- Antivirus
- File system explorer
OneFS Event Reference Guide

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OneFS Web Administration GuideThe OneFS Web Administration Guide describes how to activate licenses, configure network interfaces, manage the file system, provision block storage, run system jobs, protect data, back up the cluster, set up storage pools, establish quotas, secure access, migrate data, integrate with other applications, and monitor PowerScale clusters.
Administrative roles and privileges
RolesYou can permit and limit access to administrative areas of your cluster on a per-user basis through roles. OneFS includes several built-in administrator roles with predefined sets of privileges that cannot be modified. You can also create custom roles and assign privileges.
Built-in rolesBuilt-in roles are included in OneFS and have been configured with the most likely privileges necessary to perform common administrative functions. You cannot modify the list of privileges assigned to each built-in role; however, you can assign users and groups to built-in roles.
BackupAdmin built-in roleThe BackupAdmin built-in role enables backup and restore of files from /ifs.

BackupAdmin built-in role

The BackupAdmin built-in role enables backup and restore of files from /ifs.

Privileges	Read/write access
ISI_PRIV_IFS_BACKUP	Read-only
ISI_PRIV_IFS_RESTORE	Read/write