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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Categories Flashcopy Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 18, 2013

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Restrict FCM to manage the own source and target volumes (multi tenancy)

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Reference: Technical Exchange call with Mr. Uhl, Munz, Calvus 7/18/2013
In a shared SAN-enviroment, security is very important for a service provider with multiple customers. We want to use FCM running on different operating systems in combination with San Volume Controller. The SVC delivers SAN-storage for multiple cumstomers. <br />FCM needs access to the SVC with admin role, that means the FCM user has access to all admin commands. We see here a security compliance problem. The server should only have access to its vdisks, but with the admin role it possible to make vdiskmappings and fcmappings with all vdisks on the system.<br />I see two possibilities to solve the problem:<br />1. restrict the server to its own host and vdisk.<br />2. fcm-mapping on the svc has to be done by svc-user and the fcm only starts and stops fcmappings with the new role "fcm" on the svc with only the fcmapping commands<br />1. res

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 6, 2013

    Thank you for submitting the request. This is a recognized requirement and a solution appears to be desirable. This request is not in a committed release plan for this year,
    but the theme is aligned with our multi-year strategy, and will be a candidate for our future release. IBM’s plans may change and no commitment is made that a solution will be provided.

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