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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 17, 2017

Improve ACL on IBM storage - svc, v7000, ds8000, a9000

Improve the access control on storage devices i.e SVC, V7000 to prevent any not ethical attack to the storage infrastructure or increase the level of security and number of groups within the svc or any storage devices.
At the moment, there are single authentication, security admin and admin. I am not sure what is the difference between both apart from change or create users. The authority of both are the same to delete mdiskgroup which can cause a huge disruption if misused. I suggest double authority, or higher level of security to prevent this from happening. An optional to add such extra level of security might be useful to choose to implement or not.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jul 1, 2019

    delivered in 8.3

  • Guest
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    May 21, 2018

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) / Spectrum Virtualize
    Component - Product functionality
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Storage TCC - Private Requests
    Component - Other
    Operating system - Other
    Source - Storage Technical Client Council