Adding storage system capabilities for HTTP users

You can enable HTTP capabilities for users who want to communicate with a storage system and SnapDrive using the HTTP transport protocol.

About this task

A storage system administrator must assign the appropriate capabilities to users who do not have administrator access on the storage system.

Steps

Create a local group on the storage system to which you want to enable HTTP communication with SnapDrive.
Associate the new group to a role with the following capabilities:
- api
- login
Add the SnapDrive user to the new storage system group.

Example of how to add storage system capabilities

This examples creates a role on Storage1 called snaphttp2 with api and login capabilities, creates a group called snapadmins with the snaphttp2 role capabilities, and adds the user snapadmin1 to the snapadmins group.

Storage1> useradmin role add snaphttp2 -a api-*,login-http-admin
The role 'snaphttp2' has been added. 
Role <snaphttp2> added.

Storage1> useradmin group add snapadmins -r snaphttp2 
The group 'snapadmins' has been added. 
Group <snapadmins> added.

Storage1> useradmin user add snapadmin1 -g snapadmins
The user 'snapadmin1' has been added. 
User <snapadmin1> added.