Adaptec 2110S User Guide - Page 61

Managing Controllers on Remote Systems Accessing Remote Systems Once you register one or more systems with the directory manager and set up at least one global account, you can use Storage Manager Pro to manage controllers remotely. You must have a global user account in Storage Manager Pro to manage other systems remotely. See Understanding User Accounts on page 5-1. To access remote systems: 1 From the Dashboard, select the system you want to access. 2 Click Open System. 3 If you logged in using a local account, Storage Manager Pro asks for authentication. Type a valid global account login name and password and click OK. The authentication process gives you access to remote systems that are part of the management set for the rest of your Storage Manager Pro session. The process does not actually log you in as the global account user. The process is similar to that used when you mount a share in Windows. You can now perform all Storage Manager Pro functions on the system you opened. How Storage Manager Pro Handles Duplicate Login Names Storage Manager Pro does not let you create duplicate local user accounts on a system or duplicate global user accounts on the directory manager. (All global accounts are stored on the directory manager.) However, it is possible to create a local user account on one system and a global user account on the directory manager that use the same login name. See Understanding User Accounts on page 5-1. For example, you create a local user account with the login name user1 on system A and someone else creates a global user account with the same login name of user1 on system B. If these two systems are in the same management set and you log in as user1, Storage Manager Pro will ask how you want to log in: as a local user or as a global user. 4-9