Role Update Permissions
The purpose of the "Update Role Permissions" feature in QuantaStor is to modify and fine-tune the permissions assigned to specific roles within the storage management system. QuantaStor employs a role-based access control (RBAC) model to control user access and privileges, and the "Update Role Permissions" feature allows administrators to customize these permissions based on their specific requirements.
Here are the main purposes and benefits of using the "Update Role Permissions" feature in QuantaStor:
- Granular Access Control: QuantaStor allows you to define roles that represent different user types or job functions within your organization. Each role can have different levels of access and permissions to perform specific actions or access certain resources. The "Update Role Permissions" feature enables you to customize and fine-tune these permissions at a granular level, ensuring that users have appropriate access to perform their assigned tasks without granting unnecessary privileges.
- Security and Compliance: By modifying role permissions, you can enforce security policies and comply with regulatory requirements. The feature allows you to restrict access to sensitive functions or data, ensuring that only authorized users can perform critical operations. This helps protect against unauthorized access, accidental data loss, or malicious activities.
- Customized User Experience: QuantaStor provides a web-based management interface for storage administration. By updating role permissions, you can tailor the user experience based on the roles and responsibilities of your users. For example, you can hide or disable certain features or options that are not relevant to a specific role, simplifying the interface and improving usability.
- Delegated Administration: The "Update Role Permissions" feature enables delegated administration by allowing you to define roles with specific permissions for different user groups or administrators. This allows you to distribute administrative tasks and responsibilities while maintaining control over access and privileges. You can grant specific permissions to different roles, ensuring that each user or group has the necessary permissions to perform their designated tasks.
- Custom Workflow Support: QuantaStor supports custom workflows and automation through its RESTful API. By updating role permissions, you can control access to the API endpoints and actions, ensuring that only authorized roles can interact with the API and automate storage management tasks. This helps streamline workflows, improve efficiency, and maintain security.
- Audit and Compliance Tracking: QuantaStor logs user activities and provides an audit trail of system events. By updating role permissions, you can track and monitor the actions performed by different roles. This helps in compliance auditing, security incident investigations, and accountability for actions taken within the storage system.
Overall, the "Update Role Permissions" feature in QuantaStor allows you to customize and control the access and permissions of different roles within the storage management system. It provides granular access control, enhances security, supports compliance requirements, tailors the user experience, enables delegated administration, facilitates custom workflows, and helps track user activities for auditing purposes.
For more information check the Creating User Groups page.
Navigation: Security --> Management Roles --> Role --> Add/Remove Permissions (toolbar)
