Dell PowerVault MD3000i Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in User’s - Page 14

No Access, SSL Certificate Management

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3 From the wizard, click Add, and select the User ID or IDs that will require access to the storage arrays. 4 Select the modified role from the drop-down list, and click OK to apply changes. 5 Click OK to apply permissions to the role. No Access If users are not members of a role that has either the Read Only or Read Write Storage Administrator permission, they will not be able to view any statistics from the plug-in and will receive a No Access message if they attempt to access a plug-in feature as shown in Figure 6. Figure 6. No Access Message SSL Certificate Management After the storage administrator role has been defined and the appropriate user IDs have been configured with the role, some final installation tasks might need to be performed. The Dell MD Storage vCenter Plug-in uses SSL to secure communications between the vSphere Client and application server. For this reason, the first time a procedure is called using the plug-in, you will receive a SSL certificate warning message as shown in the following figure. The application server will generate a new SSL certificate during the installation process, and this certificate should then be installed using the following procedure: 14 Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in

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Dell MD Storage Array vCenter Plug-in
3
From the wizard, click
Add
, and select the User ID or IDs that will require
access to the storage arrays.
4
Select the modified role from the drop-down list, and click
OK
to apply
changes.
5
Click
OK
to apply permissions to the role.
No Access
If users are not members of a role that has either the Read Only or Read
Write Storage Administrator permission, they will not be able to view any
statistics from the plug-in and will receive a No Access message if they
attempt to access a plug-in feature as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6.
No Access Message
SSL Certificate Management
After the storage administrator role has been defined and the appropriate user
IDs have been configured with the role, some final installation tasks might
need to be performed. The Dell MD Storage vCenter Plug-in uses SSL to
secure communications between the vSphere Client and application server.
For this reason, the first time a procedure is called using the plug-in, you will
receive a SSL certificate warning message as shown in the following figure.
The application server will generate a new SSL certificate during the
installation process, and this certificate should then be installed using the
following procedure: