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Status Future consideration
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 9, 2022

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Enable a "read only" system administrator for monitoring purposes

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With the introduction of multi factor authentication in Spectrum Protect, administrative access to the software is significantly increased. However, an administrator without MFA must be used for automated monitoring activities. And for the execution of show commands, for example, system privileges are required.
It is therefore necessary that an administrator can issue all query and show commands on all available resources, but without being able to make changes. Spectrum Protect needs a "read only" system administrator to be able to perform monitoring tasks in an MFA protected environment.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 7, 2025

    Enterprise security is rapidly evolving and is so critical to our client's business. Our Canadian SP clients (very large environments) require this feature to define in conjunction with in its LDAP Groups to ensure the administrators and service based tools can have full view/query capability without any change risk. Corporate security teams are not satisfied with the current mix of roles available to use, as there is no equivalence to read-only administrative permissions, meaning providing no other mix/combination of role, such as policy, domain or node permissions should be used, just read-only. I see the comments dated back into Dec 2022, and this really needs to happen now that we are in 2025. Thank you for your consideration.

  • Admin
    Juan Carlos Jimenez Fuentes
    Reply
    |     Dec 9, 2022

    Are we looking into a less restrictive "read-only" access?


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