Dell Compellent Series 30 - Manual (Page 280)

272 Storage Center 5.5 System Manager User Guide
Users and Groups
Configuring User Volume Defaults
User Defaults affect all levels of users, Administrative, Volume Manager, and Reporter.
• Administrative User can always view the Configure User Volume Defaults and change
any default.
• Volume Manager can only change volume defaults if an administrator enables Allow
User to Modify Preferences. If this is checked in the General Volume Defaults window,
Volume Managers can change their own volume default preferences. If this option is
unchecked, the Volume Manager does not have the option to change default
preferences.
• Reporter cannot create volumes. This window does not appear for a Reporter.
There are three different User Volume Default commands. Though the windows are similar,
each command has a different purpose:
• My User Volume Defaults
• Other User Volume Defaults
• New User Volume Defaults
My User Volume Defaults
As an administrative user, you can always change your own user defaults. This affects the
the way in which you create volumes. To streamline the process of creating volumes, you
can set defaults for yourself.
If you are a Volume Manager, you can change your volume defaults only if an administrative
user enables you to change your defaults in the General Volume Default window. If this
option is enabled for you, you can streamline the process of creating volumes by setting
Create Volume defaults.
Other User Volume Defaults
If you are an administrative user, you can select one or more current users and change their
user volume defaults. If you change an Administrator’s volume defaults, when that user
logs into a system, the defaults you enabled appear as an initial configuration. That
Administrative user can, of course, change these defaults.
As an administrative user, if you disable the option to change create volume defaults for a
Volume Manager, that volume manager will not be able to change Create Volume defaults.
Specifically, if you disable the option to change these defaults and Advanced Create
Volume options are disabled, a Volume Manager will not be able to select non-standard
options.
New User Volume Defaults
New user volume defaults apply to users that will be created in the future. This streamlines
the process of creating users. If you create Volume Managers and by default disable their
ability to change their user volume defaults, they will not be able to change create volume
defaults.
Administrative users will be created with New User Volume Defaults, but they can always
changes these defaults. New User Volume Defaults are only for new users; defaults are not
retroactive.